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yardwork

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6. Both are true.

Reply to Conjuay (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 10:31 AM

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The billionaires (including Saudi Arabia and the other dictators in the Middle East) need large countries dependent on oil.

The billionaires (including Putin who has personally made an unimaginable amount of money off oil) pay to influence hundreds of millions of voters worldwide wide (notably in the U.S., lately) so that those voters will keep their heads up their asses.

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Scotland temporarily ran entirely on wind power as turbines generated over 200 percent of national electricity demand. [View all] Swede Yesterday OP

We could learn a lot from our European friends if we would get our head out of our ass. walkingman Yesterday #1

It has NOTHING to do with our heads up our asses. Conjuay Yesterday #2

Both are true. yardwork Yesterday #6

Scotland regularly generates an electricity surplus over its own requirements Emrys Yesterday #3

Decades of these kinds of momentary 100% reports demonstrate... NNadir Yesterday #4

This isn't a "momentary" surplus, nor is it unreliable. Emrys Yesterday #7

Nonsense. It isn't rocket science to understand that the wind doesn't blow continuously. NNadir Yesterday #9

I was just thinking the other day I hadn't seen an NNadir pro-nuke post in awhile AZJonnie Yesterday #10

Wind power will only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels. hunter Yesterday #13

Yes I've read many dozens of NNadir's posts over the years, you don't have to get me up to speed AZJonnie Yesterday #15

The best ways to halt human population growth are not coercive. hunter Yesterday #16

Nuclear power will have a similar effect Emrys Yesterday #18

Low wind and no sunshine cause renewable energy shutdowns constantly. hunter Yesterday #20

Hence my emphasis throughout on a MIX of resources Emrys 23 hrs ago #23

Trashing coastal environments with tidal power schemes isn't going to save the world. hunter 19 hrs ago #25

This is now getting tiresome. I didn't realize a good news story about Scotland would bring on the nuclear fanboys. Emrys 19 hrs ago #28

Bullshit. Hickley C will be saving lives half a century after every wind turbine in Scotland has become landfill. NNadir 23 hrs ago #21

Oh, bullshit yourself. Emrys 23 hrs ago #24

Nonsense yourself. I think you fit very well the description of an ideologue Emrys Yesterday #12

Could it be that's what the fossil fuel industry wants you to think? hunter Yesterday #17

I don't know why you think that. Emrys Yesterday #19

Human ingenuity sometimes (not often, but sometimes) Torchlight Yesterday #5

really good DoBW Yesterday #8

They will need to be bombed over this and their regime changed. Too threatening to Big Oil. (SARCASM). artemisia1 Yesterday #11

Gee. Who WOULDN'T want that for the USA and planet earth? Kid Berwyn Yesterday #14

Wouldn't it be great to read, United States of America temporarily ran entirely on wind power... Passages 23 hrs ago #22

And we get coal natural gas and oil. Klarkashton 19 hrs ago #26

he hated wind power becuase Turbines were in view on the golf course he acquired. Acccording to the Clown-in-Charge, OAITW r.2.0 19 hrs ago #27