That wind and solar cannot provide base power isn't a canard - it's the definition of bullshit
FTFY
All you have to do with wind and solar is space out generating capacity across the grid - exactly as you would do with nuclear power. And excess wind and solar power can be transmitted hundreds of miles over power lines or pumped into artificial reservoirs to be used for hydroelectric power as needed - exactly as you would for nuclear power.
Or did you miss the fact that the Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant I linked to is an artificial reservoir to back up nearby nuclear power plants?
it is absolutely bonkers to idle an already constructed and operational nuclear power plant.
If you're bonkers enough to ignore the billions in operational & security costs, insurance & disaster preparedness, and decomissioning before even broaching the subject of where you're going to store the waste for the next hundred generations...
Wind power is unreliable, kills birds and is not viable in many parts of the world. Solar is unreliable and not viable in many parts of the world. Geothermal and Hydroelectric are also Geographically limited.
Because it's totally safe to build nuclear power in regiouns that are prone to earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires, tornadoes, hurricanes....
...or maybe you're just engaging in selective reasoning.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear "disaster" killed Zero people directly. Maybe a dozen will die eventually. Maybe.
Maybe you're getting figures from the same people who say drones have only killed 100 civilians. But putting the issue of deaths aside completely, nuclear power is unjustifiable based on cost alone.
It simply costs too much to build, to maintain, to secure, to decommission, and that's before getting to storing the waste for thousands of years. For the same startup cost you can build out wind and solar generation in a fraction of the time with none of the long term liabilities, and that's including pumped storage facilities to neutralize the baseline canard that is invariably brought up when discussing wind and solar.
So is looking at the sun. During the last eclipse, did you look at it without special glasses? Did you stare at it without glasses during non-eclipse times, just to verify that those astronomers advising caution weren't pushing some librul agenda?
Bullshit. Capitalists are stupid and a liability. There is no way an executive should get the $50+/hr when others do all the actual work that makes the actual money
Yeah, that pesky "Innocent until proven guilty" thing is sooo last century!
As is critical thinking, apparently. This wasn't a criminal trial, it was a lawsuit to find evidence that the state's electronic voting machines were unreliable and could be hacked. Which was totally, totally totally disproved by the state wiping the server after the suit was filed and officials responding with bug passing and chorus's of "not it".
So to be clear, you believe the Union was wrong in the civil war?
The South started the war, dumbass. And at the time, only property owners were allowed to vote - it's not like the majority of renters, slaves and women voted to leave the Union. Dumbass.
thanks for the input comrade! how is the weather in Vladivostok?
The view is quite a bit more clear than rom the hole you climbed into after accusing Iraq invasion skeptics of being Saddam lovers. Why don't you crawl back in it.
If corporate overlords treated their workers fairly, unions never would have existed in the first place. Workers who depend on their next paycheck for their standard of living aren't going to start out from Day 1 looking to put those checks in jeopardy by going against the company. Unless they have a reason to.
In even right-to-work-for-less states, you can indeed be fired for any reason - unless that reasoning is illegal. Being black, a woman getting pregnant, someone advocating for unions on personal or break time...those reasons are illegal.
The state was being sued for having a shit electronic voting system with no verifiability, and now the primary evidence was mysteriously erased! Must be the Ruskies (who haven't been shown to have done jack or shit last year), not someone looking to cover for corrupt election officials in the state.
You know someone who has nothing but whining about a source without addressing any of the content has just that - nothing, right?
Seriously, there are a lot of relatively good journalists... go find one of those.
You mean the fine sources that are feeding you Grade A USDA bullshit on Russia and Syria, after having done the same on Iraq in 2003. And you guys eat it up. With a spoon.
He was promising free stuff to young educated white people, so of course they are going to support him. The problem is that his support didn't extend beyond that group. He never got much support from minorities, working-class whites, or voters old enough to realize that someone has to pay for the free stuff, and it was going to be them.
Huh, didn't know you were such a Hillbot, regurgitating some fine bullshit cooked up by David Brock. Learn something new every day...
Several were deemed classified after the fact, but that is not, as you say, how classification works.
That's exactly how it works as this information is born classified. If Hillary was emailing the ambassador to South Korea about North Korea's nuclear arsenal, do you think that conversation had to be stamped "classified" before it would be considered as such?
This "evidence" you allege was obviously not enough to bring charges.
Tell that to the sailor sent to prison for taking unauthorized pictures on his unsecured cell phone. Hillary exposed far larger amounts of far more classified information and then destroyed much of the evidence. If she were anyone else, she'd be serving an effective life sentence.
From a legal standpoint, if the Secretary of State emails their staff classified information originating from the State Department, they are de-facto declassifying it.
You should find this statute that lets high level officials unilaterally share information outside the official declassification process and tell David Petraeus, so he can get his plea deal to federal charges vacated.
You mean besides the multiple Congressional hearings controlled by Republicans over years that failed to produce anything of substance to charge Clinton with wrong doing? Other than those, nothing.
Mishandling classified information + obstruction of justice for destruction of evidence. If her name was Hillary Johnson she'd be in prison serving an effective life sentence.
Among other things, the chairmen want to know why the bureau publicly said it was investigating Clinton while keeping silent that it was looking into President Donald Trump's campaign associates and their connections to Russia.
...and we fucking told you so. There is just as much evidence to support the idea that Russia had anything to do with anything last year, as there is to Obama having a fake birth certificate or the CIA putting mind-controlling gas in jet fuel.
Eh.
Veh.
Dence.
No, accusations from the same professional liars that got you in Iraq is not evidence. And before one of the rubes starts up with the "go back to RT, Boris" crap, you guys said the same thing about skeptics being Saddam supporters if they questioned Bush's claims in 2003. You were tools then, and you're tools now.
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FTFY
All you have to do with wind and solar is space out generating capacity across the grid - exactly as you would do with nuclear power. And excess wind and solar power can be transmitted hundreds of miles over power lines or pumped into artificial reservoirs to be used for hydroelectric power as needed - exactly as you would for nuclear power.
Or did you miss the fact that the Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant I linked to is an artificial reservoir to back up nearby nuclear power plants?
FTFY. Even if thorium reactors become a thing, they're never going to make nuclear power cost-effective compared to alternatives. Sorry.
If you're bonkers enough to ignore the billions in operational & security costs, insurance & disaster preparedness, and decomissioning before even broaching the subject of where you're going to store the waste for the next hundred generations...
Because it's totally safe to build nuclear power in regiouns that are prone to earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires, tornadoes, hurricanes....
...or maybe you're just engaging in selective reasoning.
Maybe you're getting figures from the same people who say drones have only killed 100 civilians. But putting the issue of deaths aside completely, nuclear power is unjustifiable based on cost alone.
It simply costs too much to build, to maintain, to secure, to decommission, and that's before getting to storing the waste for thousands of years. For the same startup cost you can build out wind and solar generation in a fraction of the time with none of the long term liabilities, and that's including pumped storage facilities to neutralize the baseline canard that is invariably brought up when discussing wind and solar.
So is looking at the sun. During the last eclipse, did you look at it without special glasses? Did you stare at it without glasses during non-eclipse times, just to verify that those astronomers advising caution weren't pushing some librul agenda?
FTFY
Which invariably translates to "take public money and put it in private hands".
As is critical thinking, apparently. This wasn't a criminal trial, it was a lawsuit to find evidence that the state's electronic voting machines were unreliable and could be hacked. Which was totally, totally totally disproved by the state wiping the server after the suit was filed and officials responding with bug passing and chorus's of "not it".
The South started the war, dumbass. And at the time, only property owners were allowed to vote - it's not like the majority of renters, slaves and women voted to leave the Union. Dumbass.
You literally have no idea what that word means.
The view is quite a bit more clear than rom the hole you climbed into after accusing Iraq invasion skeptics of being Saddam lovers. Why don't you crawl back in it.
If corporate overlords treated their workers fairly, unions never would have existed in the first place. Workers who depend on their next paycheck for their standard of living aren't going to start out from Day 1 looking to put those checks in jeopardy by going against the company. Unless they have a reason to.
This isn't rocket science.
If you think "the left" is for Calvanist robber barons, you need to get out more.
In even right-to-work-for-less states, you can indeed be fired for any reason - unless that reasoning is illegal. Being black, a woman getting pregnant, someone advocating for unions on personal or break time...those reasons are illegal.
...who has nothing but distain for his fellow workers. Huh, never seen that in an anti-union story before.
The state was being sued for having a shit electronic voting system with no verifiability, and now the primary evidence was mysteriously erased! Must be the Ruskies (who haven't been shown to have done jack or shit last year), not someone looking to cover for corrupt election officials in the state.
You know someone who has nothing but whining about a source without addressing any of the content has just that - nothing, right?
You mean the fine sources that are feeding you Grade A USDA bullshit on Russia and Syria, after having done the same on Iraq in 2003. And you guys eat it up. With a spoon.
Kristian Saucier is fascinated by your alternative facts, and would like to subscribe to your Hillbot newsletter, as are David Petraeus and Sandy Berger.
Huh, didn't know you were such a Hillbot, regurgitating some fine bullshit cooked up by David Brock. Learn something new every day...
That's exactly how it works as this information is born classified. If Hillary was emailing the ambassador to South Korea about North Korea's nuclear arsenal, do you think that conversation had to be stamped "classified" before it would be considered as such?
Tell that to the sailor sent to prison for taking unauthorized pictures on his unsecured cell phone. Hillary exposed far larger amounts of far more classified information and then destroyed much of the evidence. If she were anyone else, she'd be serving an effective life sentence.
You should find this statute that lets high level officials unilaterally share information outside the official declassification process and tell David Petraeus, so he can get his plea deal to federal charges vacated.
Mishandling classified information + obstruction of justice for destruction of evidence. If her name was Hillary Johnson she'd be in prison serving an effective life sentence.
Eh.
Veh.
Dence.
No, accusations from the same professional liars that got you in Iraq is not evidence. And before one of the rubes starts up with the "go back to RT, Boris" crap, you guys said the same thing about skeptics being Saddam supporters if they questioned Bush's claims in 2003. You were tools then, and you're tools now.
Uh, so they have capacity to meet demand as they phase out coal power? Do you also ask why airlines don't hire blind pilots?
How is your free market cult going to stop climate change?