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NNadir

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4. Yeah, all you have to do is believe, but I'm having a hard time believing any of it. Perhaps...

Reply to hunter (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 08:08 PM

Nov 2017

...this is because I check the atmospheric carbon dioxide figures every damn week.

It's getting uglier and uglier.

I don't know if the goal is to grind up birds and anything else that flies, but the wind industry has nothing at all to do with the goal of saving the atmosphere. Measured by this criteria, it's far more disastrous as that even that went down the memory hole pretty quickly, specifically the deepwater horizon disaster.

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Cost of wind keeps dropping, and theres little coal, nuclear can do to stop it [View all] workinclasszero Nov 2017 OP

Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2017 #1

This is a nonsense statement, unless it includes the internal and external costs of the dangerous... NNadir Nov 2017 #2

Batteries! Smart Grids! Magic! hunter Nov 2017 #3

Yeah, all you have to do is believe, but I'm having a hard time believing any of it. Perhaps... NNadir Nov 2017 #4

It's scares the hell out of me that some of today's largest industrial projects... hunter Nov 2017 #5

Hardly any better than coal? Finishline42 Nov 2017 #6

Oh, hell yes, hardly any better than coal. hunter Nov 2017 #9

Well that's more than a bit misleading Finishline42 Nov 2017 #7

Have you examined the comprehensive database of... NNadir Nov 2017 #8

I'm not familiar with that data Finishline42 Nov 2017 #10

I personally am not willing to bet the planetary atmosphere on this accounting scheme. NNadir Nov 2017 #11

Danish Energy Agency Register of Wind Turbines: NNadir Nov 2017 #12

Thanks for the link. Finishline42 Nov 2017 #13

Diablo Canyon is an EXCELLENT example. NNadir Nov 2017 #14

Also the FACT is that Demark has no plan to get 100% of NNadir Nov 2017 #15