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NNadir

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6. Solar and wind are not reliable sources of energy and require expensive back up from dangerous fossil fuels.
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 02:15 PM
9 hrs ago

The high costs of solar and wind are hidden are indirect and seldom acknowledged, the cost of redundancy often leading to a low ROI for the dangerous fossil fuel back up, which nonetheless is essential, as the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine, a vast network of transmission lines (which are sometimes dangerous as they can cause fires), their short lifetimes, the intense land and material requirements.

The reality for electricity supply is that people too often believe that "electrify everything" is "green," which it is not even close to being true, that energy storage is "green," which is thermodynamic nonsense, that electric cars are "green," which is on most grids dubious if not completely untrue, and that the servers they are willing to use to order stuff, to email, to socialize are all frivolous and unnecessary.

The people in support of the orange pedophile are odious, but I really think this conspiracy theory is unworthy.

So called "renewable energy" is not sustainable, nor does it reduce costs. This unfortunate myth to the contrary has left the planet in flames, and carbon dioxide accumulations going through the roof.

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