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NNadir

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2. This is an incredible statement repeatedly used by the defenders of the so called....
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 06:54 AM
Apr 2017

..."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.

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