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"'No Touch' is requested by BPA when unusually hot or cold weather increases the demand for electricity, notes Mike Paoli, spokesman for Energy Northwest," the report adds. "Many regional transmission and system operators across the United States ask nuclear plants to keep running during extreme weather because nuclear plants are the least affected by bad weather.

Erm...Europe’s heatwave is forcing nuclear power plants to shut down

US drought causes nuclear power station to shutdown

Those shutdowns were because of a lack of water to cool the plant. Also, all power plants, nuclear or not have to use water for dumping excess heat. Its why power plants of all types are so often put by large bodies of water. Those heatwave shutdowns had nothing to do with the nuclear aspect of those plants.

"'No Touch' is requested by BPA when unusually hot or cold weather increases the demand for electricity, notes Mike Paoli, spokesman for Energy Northwest," the report adds. "Many regional transmission and system operators across the United States ask nuclear plants to keep running during extreme weather because nuclear plants are the least affected by bad weather.

Erm...Europe’s heatwave is forcing nuclear power plants to shut down

US drought causes nuclear power station to shutdown

You idiot. Neonicotinoids kill the pollinators!! You wanna have NO FOOD in a few years?

(warning: Sarcasm ahead)

Such melodrama! People can and do manually pollinate crops. In fact, killing off all the bees and bats will create employment for billions of people. Neonicotinoid sellers are job creators of the first order.

Article on decline of bees and humans pollinating apple orchards manually in China

China is apparently not doing so well with the transmission lines.

CoalSwarm published a report on September 26 warning that 259 gigawatts of coal power capacity – equivalent to the entire coal power fleet of the United States – is being built in China despite government policies restricting new builds.
How funny. This was known more than 1.5 years ago, and yet, Coal Swarm did not report it. Now, they finally report PART of it. They are reporting the ADDITIONAL NEW coal plants. Not the replacement.

There is zero chance of Co2 dropping because of China, but mostly those that defend CHina's need to burn coal.
It is the far lefties, as well as those paid to troll, that are the worse. If all ppl would push govs to cut back, then issue would be solved. But so not going to happen
Oddly, China is using their coal plants ar 50-60%, and yet, they continue to add many more new coal plants. In fact, much more than they are adding in AE.

Yeah coal is so uneconomical

https://qz.com/1404934/chinas-...

https://www.chinadialogue.net/...

Oh apparently you are just as knowledgeable about the profitability of mining coal

https://www.montelnews.com/en/...

U.S. Exports expected to be up 60% in 2018 go figure.

...The fusion guys get these reports and then say "well, we don't have a working reactor so we don't really know" and then stick their fingers in their ears and do the "la la la I CANNOT HEAR YOU" thing...

I like that. It's funny. And it could be that fusion energy is a fly-by-night used to bilk investors. It will forever be 20, 40, 50 years off (double entendre intended). Yeah, I dunno. There is a rumor that results from Big Data analytics is the reason Besos, Microsoft, Amazon, and others are investing here. Ah, it's probably just a ruse.

Oh, and I'm sure you know that there are fusion reactors working right now, just none in the commercial sphere. They're for research. Fusion energy has yet to reach a viable price point. Not yet.

https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/10042-Private-sector-companies-are-firing-up-the-fusion-race

http://theconversation.com/why-nuclear-fusion-is-gaining-steam-again-93775

Without bees there is no food.

There are other polinators. And there are plants thriving in areas without large natural bee populations. The result would be bad, but lying about it just weakens your stance.

That is actually true but none of them are a really replacement for bees. In China this problem collapsing pollinator populations (read: bees for the most part) and gross overuse of pesticides has gotten so bad that farmers are pollinating their orchards by hand using a brush: https://www.chinadialogue.net/... In some regions school kids get time off school every year to go into the fields with a brush and pollinate the flowers of domesticated plants. The best way to solve this problem is to create patches of meadows and forest to act as habitat for pollinators as well as predators like bats and birds who could eliminate the need for a lot of pesticide spraying and save farmers huge amounts of money. Of course that would put some major dents into the bottom lines of large swaths of the chemical industry and we can't have that now can we? Why listen to a 'scientist' when your local Monsanto rep knows better?

China's apple growers are hand pollinating apples

https://www.chinadialogue.net/...

Pears: http://thebeephotographer.phot...

Great Britians bee loss

http://www.collective-evolutio...

And on and on, and on.

I keep writing about it, but seriously, Humans cannot defy nature or physics just because we feel like it. Bee death denials

Solvents. Semiconductor manufacturing is dirty. Particularly using the methods they use in China:
https://www.chinadialogue.net/...

Mining rare earths to make magnets for windmills is not exactly clean either:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/hom...

There are already a multitude of solutions available, eg. bio-friendly bags that turn poop into fertilizer and just need you dig a hole.

And the "multitude of solutions available" don't always work.

Here's a "lessons learned" article on the Daxing Ecological Community toilet experience; hope the Gates foundation is willling to learn from other peoples' failures: http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5068-Eco-toilet-scheme-ends-in-failure

There are already a multitude of solutions available, eg. bio-friendly bags that turn poop into fertilizer and just need you dig a hole.

And the "multitude of solutions available" don't always work.

Here's a "lessons learned" article on the Daxing Ecological Community toilet experience; hope the Gates foundation is willling to learn from other peoples' failures: http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5068-Eco-toilet-scheme-ends-in-failure

Let's hope he does something better than the Stockholm "green" toilets they tried in Mongolia:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/07/toilet-tuesday-death-worlds-largest-eco-toilet/2783/
http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5068-Eco-toilet-scheme-ends-in-failure

If you have trouble reading this, that would be because you are avoiding something you know is true