Huge Milestone: Renewables Now Provide More Electricity Than Nuclear Power

[hunter]

3. What you posted is not good. I posted actual numbers.

Fracked natural gas sucks as bad as coal. Gas consumption world wide is increasing. That's a raw fact. It stings. Why would anyone celebrate that?

Solar and wind are supplemental power sources and there is no evidence yet they can be anything else.

In any case, I'm some kind of misanthropist, amateur environmental/evolutionary biologist with some formal post-graduate training, and a neo-Luddite.

This high energy industrial society affluent people now enjoy will die because it is not sustainable. A nuclear power techno-optimist's utopia like NNadir's, or a wind and solar power optimist's utopia would LOOK NOTHING LIKE today's fossil fueled affluent society.

I'll occasionally post things related to my own vision for the future, a soft crash landing, but they rarely gain any traction.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127111015

Hell, I can't even convince my wife that a refrigerator is not a necessity... even though I've lived without one as a kid and young adult.

And don't even get me started about our automobile culture. I was sort of hoping it would be dead by now, but that peak oil thing didn't pan out, partly because our refinery industry learned to convert crappy heavy dirty petroleum resources to lightweight fuels, at the cost of increased carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.

Do the math. It ain't pretty.