Nuclear Power's Original Mistake: Trying to Domesticate the Bomb (Bloomberg View)

...nuclear power has failed to live up to the implied promise, and consequently is culpable to the damage caused by Dangerous Natural Gas™ in the last 63 years.

Too Cheap to Meter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter



Or at least if one were to comprehensively apply the logic presented by some prolific intertube bloggers.

..."renewable energy" scam that would die without the subsidies it soaks up...for no meaningful result, and of course without the huge subsidies to the dangerous natural gas industry on which the so called "renewable energy" industry depends.

Thirty or forty years ago, many of the very stupid defenders of so called "renewable energy" industry used to go around telling everyone this energy source would be "free."

It just soaked up two trillion dollars of precious resources on a dying planet for solar and wind alone, and did nothing meaningful.

The continuous citation of the 1954 remark about "too cheap to meter" made by a Government syndic with no engineering or scientific training - a person nearly as stupid as the average anti-nuke -who among other things smeared the nuclear scientist Robert Oppenheimer is so idiotic and so pernicious as to border on criminal.

Nuclear energy saves lives. Of all forms of energy developed by government assistance, it has saved more lives than any other approach.

If there is anyone anywhere who can point to any form of energy that is "too cheap to meter" we'd love to hear from you. The evocation of this idiotic remark made by a non-scientist in 1954 merely is yet another case of "nuclear exceptionalism" wherein people attach to nuclear energy criteria they attach to nothing else.

Unfortunately this kind of propaganda kills people, about 7 million per year who unnecessarily die from air pollution.

I invite all of the world's anti-nukes to have a very pleasant typically stupid and evil day.

...take this as an object lesson on how not to win hearts & minds for a particular argument:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winning_hearts_and_minds

...clearly lacking one.

I am unapologetic in regarding anti-nukes as anything but stupid and evil, and, am in fact, completely incapable of regarding them in any other way.

This is a function of the fact that I give a shit about the 70 million deaths every decade from air pollution while they burn oil, gas and coal to carry on about, um, say, Fukushima.

Among the many intellectually and ethically challenged ideas that seems to purvey the despicable anti-nuke mentality is the notion that people should kiss their asses to make them do the right thing.

In reality, one should do the right thing because it, um, is the right thing, and not for any other reason.

Have a nice Friday tomorrow.

Nnadir is in the process of learning an economics lesson on adoption of new technologies - and 'the renewable S curve' is not going to help him sell the basement nuclear reactor he's been trying to hawk for 15 years (said failure is the true source of the bitterness and anger he continually displays).