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The whole renewables thing is bullshit. This last week on the UK we've had no wind. I have solar on my boat and as the sun gets lower in the sky the solar performance drops off enormously. Add in overcast days and my 1kw system barely produces enough to charge a toothbrush.

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It's hopeless in winter. There's a reason we celebrate the rebirth of the Sun on Christmas day.

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Thorium power plants likely the best option. The billions wasted on “green” energy could of had us up and running already. Clean, safe, efficient.

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There's no such thing as Green Energy when it has massive amounts of fossil fuels to make it work.

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You might want to read this.

"Technological Superstitions" by JMG

https://thearchdruidreport-archive.200605.xyz/2014/09/technological-superstitions.html

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Wrong.

READ THE ARTICLE https://ourfiniteworld.com/2024/11/11/nuclear-electricity-generation-has-hidden-problems-dont-expect-advanced-modular-units-to-solve-them/

Unless you are troll and you received an alert from the Ministry of Truth that a truth has been posted on the www... and you are getting a few nickels to post the comment --- that was provided to you from the Ministry when they hired you as a trolll.

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Forget thorium reactors. They don't work no matter what your favourite youtubers told you.

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Thanks for this in depth information. I am new to your substack. It’s refreshing to get honest technical detail. This article has helped me realign my thinking on energy generation.

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I hate to be "that" guy to say it but our modern world was built on cheap to extract fossil fuels and it will take fossil fuels to keep the lights on with industrial civilization. Except we used all the cheap stuff and it's getting harder and harder to find.

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Obviously, an extreme buildout of nuclear reactors in addition to solar and wind to switch over our energy needs to "green" or "renewable" is never going to happen. But we still do not see the fallacy of such a dream.

Now back to reality. So what is the most likely outcome?

As Jethro Tull wrote in his prescient song "Wondring Again" in 1972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7SGq7jMdSU

The best we can ever hope for is a GRADUAL unwind of high tech energy hogging obscene industrial civilization. But we have been so comfortable! They can't do this us!

At the annual alumini Williams-Amherst football game telecast in Raleigh/Durham , NC this past weekend, I talked to a fellow Williams 2021 alum who was getting a masters degree in environmental studies and an MBA at Duke.

I made him very uncomfortable when I, as fellow alum, explained how the environment will be sacrificied at the altar of energy necessity. Environmental lipservice for now, but when the crunch comes, all of that will go out the window.

So what's the solution? he asked.

Depopulation I answered.

He was stunned that I would be so blunt. We don't have a solution., We only have an outcome. And the snide comeback "OK then you go first" won't cut it either. The best we can hope for is a gradual unwind of the miracle of fossil fuels betsowed upon humanity as a one time gift....or as some might say, actually was a hidden curse.

But it would appear we have two choices, either suffoctae and gag on the build up of pollution as we scramble to suck up the last resources, or immeditate starvation for the masses if we cut off our energy lifeline.

As Pete Townshend wrote, possibly referring to Mother Nature and the fact that we now are looking into an "Empty Glass."

"I'm gonna get you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7SGq7jMdSU

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The environment doesn't matter. It will clean itself up once the humans are dead. Imagining that we are in charge of the planet is hubris that will be punished.

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