ThatOwlWoman (09-18-2018)
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ThatOwlWoman (09-18-2018)
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I hope we don't shut down existing nuclear capacity. I'm just being realistic about the political viability of greatly expanding nuclear capacity. People who wouldn't bat an eye at a big new solar farm being installed somewhere near their homes will absolutely lose their minds over a new nuclear plant being built.
It used to be:" People who wouldn't bat an eye at a big new solar farm being installed somewhere near their homes will absolutely lose their minds over a new nuclear plant being built. " O #69
NIMBY: not in my back yard. But now it's
BANANA: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything
I suspect decentralization may play a significant role in domestic power decades in our future.
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Too late, it is already happening. There is only one nuclear plant left in California in Diablo Canyon.
https://www.power-eng.com/articles/s...r-closing.html
It's still a developing energy source. Nobody is saying Germany can be powered 100% by renewable energies right now. But, it is a fact that Germany is able to utilize more and more renewable energy each year. Germany's green power has grown by a third in just the last three years. 9.5 times more than just last year, which is a record. They produced enough renewable energy (104 billion kWh to be exact) in the first 6 months of this year to power Germany's homes for a whole year.
https://www.independent.co.uk/enviro...-a8427356.html
California is also blowing right through renewable energy records.
http://www.energy.ca.gov/almanac/ele...tem_power.html
Nuclear power is mostly stagnant. Not much of any progress at all is being made in the technology or application.
I might also add that solar energy is an easily decentralized energy source so many people could get solar panels just for personal use and save on their energy bill. It doesn't have to be a whole big country-wide thing like other energy sources. Because country-wide application is where we are coming up short currently.
At the current rate of progress, they are predicting the ability to use 65% renewable energies by 2030. I'm inclined to believe that because they are currently on track to meet their 2020 target. Like I said, it's a developing technology. But if it's blowing through records annually and they are meeting their targets, there's no legitimate reason to believe we couldn't power Germany almost entirely on renewable energies in the near future.Most of Germany's energy needs are met by importing it, coal which is the largest source and nuclear.
Same with California you idiot. The notion that wind and solar can provide the hundreds of thousands of megawatts necessary to power Germany and California are laughably stupid.
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” - Henry David Thoreau
As of the end of 2015, renewable energy sources, such as biomass, biogas, biofuels, hydro, wind and solar, accounted for 12.4% of the country's primary energy consumption.
They will NEVER be able to support their economy with renewable's. You can take that to the bank snowflake.
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"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
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