There are ZERO anti-nuke fundies who understand what percentage of American power is coal based.
This is because there are ZERO fundie anti-nukes who know anything about the heat capacity of water, or spinning reserve or any other subject connected with reality.
Similarly there are zero anti-nuke fundies who understand that France has the lowest per capita carbon dioxide emissions of
any of the world's six largest economies.
There are thus ZERO anti-nuke fundies who understand what coal does, which explains the stupid little posturing about wind power and solar power which cannot do what coal does, since unlike coal, they are intermittent forms of energy. Note that saying as much - stating the inconvenient truth - does not make coal
acceptable.
Only dumb ass fundies go around trying to put lipstick on the coal pig with ridiculous "sequestering" fantasies, which are exactly the equivalent of fundie wind as base load energy fantasies.
No sequestering facilities are planned. None are built. None are on the drawing board. This is
exactly the state of affairs with say, the wind hydrogen schemes pushed by Utsira wishful thinkers, or the equally stupid and impracticle "compressed air" daydreams.
There are, among the coal apologists like say, the fundie anti-nuke Gerhard Schroeder, who recognize that coal plants have the highest capacity utilization of all power plants
after nuclear. Coal's capacity utilization in the US is 72%. Nuclear is 90% Even the best wind plants are lucky to have 25%, and the best solar plants, in deserts, less than that.
Thus it follows that the potential for nuclear energy can be taken simply by summing the contribution of coal and nuclear in the United States. Nuclear produces 8 exajoules, in spite of dumb fundies misrepresenting what it is, what it does, and why it is the cleanest and most successful form of climate change gas free energy. Coal in this country - which is unacceptable - produces 23 exajoules roughly.
Renewables other than hydro - for all forms of energy in this country - produce less than 0.6 exajoules.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/trends/table1_1.htmlThis is because there are ZERO fundie anti-nukes who know anything about the heat capacity of water, or spinning reserve or any other subject connected with reality.
Similarly there are zero anti-nuke fundies who understand that France has the lowest per capita carbon dioxide emissions of
any of the world's six largest economies.
Apparently in anti-nuke fundie land, it is believed - in spite of all evidence to the contrary - that coal has been phased out.
Not true.
Apparently in fundie land, nuclear power. the world's largest, by far form of climate change gas free primary energy, has been eliminated by renewable energy. This of course, is no different from what dumb fundies were saying on this website almost 8 years ago.
"Nuclear Power IS DEAD!!!!" the screamed 8 years ago.
Of course, even 8 years old this rhetoric came after 20 years of similar dumb denial and fraudulent interpretation. Quoth the dumb fundie fossil fuel apologist Amory Lovins in
1980:
In fact, the global nuclear power enterprise is rapidly disappearing. De facto moratoria on reactor ordering exist today in the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Ireland, and probably the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan and Canada. Nuclear power has been indefinitely deferred or abandoned in Austria, Denmark, Norway, Iran, China, Australia and New Zealand. Nuclear power elsewhere is in grave difficulties. Only in centrally planned economies, notably France and the U.S.S.R., is bureaucratic power sufficient to override, if not overcome, economic facts.
Lovins, Dumbshit <em>Foreign Affairs</em>, "Nuclear Power and Nuclear Bombs, Summer 1980, page 1138.
Of course, nuclear power did not die the death predicted by Lovins, whose knowledge of "economics facts" is strictly limited to collecting checks from right wing fossil fuel dependent corporations.
In fact the outcome of the "nuclear is dying from economics" rhetoric which has been consistently hallucinatory for almost 30 years is belied by
data:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/table27.xlsSince Amory "Dumbshit" Lovins predicted the death of nuclear power on "economic grounds" in 1980, nuclear power production has grown by a factor of 4, despite having started on an 8 exajoule scale.
I note that shrill anti-nukes who couldn't give a rat's ass about dangerous fossil fuel waste, dangerous fossil fuel war, dangerous fossil fuel terrorism, or for that matter, climate change, wouldn't need to be so shrill if nuclear power really was going away.
I also note that the "renewables will save us" crowd, with their arbitrary attention to reality, have not contemplated whether the bases of wind plants are made of concrete, whether their rotors are made of copper, whether their structure is steel, etc, etc, etc.
They wish to view nuclear energy in isolation from everything else.
I note, with contempt, that the "renewables will save us" biofuels posturing is having the shit kicked out of it by almost everyone who thinks about the subject.
Finally I note, with grave and sober satisfaction and a full and realistic measure of the tragedy underway, that both remaining Democratic candidates have wholly realistic views of nuclear energy.
It ain't the view point of yuppie coal apologists.
We are NOT going to have a piece of shit like Gerhard Schroeder in this country.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120901755.htmlNuclear energy doesn't need to be perfect to be better than everything else.
It merely needs to be better than everything else, and it is.
Tell us about it again Amory:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/table27.xlsIf Amory Lovins had any intellectual integrity, which he doesn't, he would apologize to all humanity for the hundreds of billions of tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste he has caused to be dumped in the atmosphere because of his abysmal ignorance going back to 1980.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/tableh1co2.xlsIgnorance kills.