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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4900 on: June 08, 2021, 01:16:08 PM »
or rent some real corn ground in Iowa for a few years
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4901 on: June 08, 2021, 01:38:03 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on June 08, 2021, 01:04:51 PM
So, they pump out ground water for a few years ...
It's kinda hit or miss.


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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4902 on: June 10, 2021, 07:48:39 PM »
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4903 on: June 10, 2021, 07:52:50 PM »
The IEA’s ‘Roadmap’ for Net-Zero Is Full of Dead Ends | RealClearEnergy

Last year, Coilín ÓhAiseadha and Ronan Connolly, two Dublin-based researchers published an academic paper that found that between 2011 and 2018 global spending on solar and wind energy totaled some $2 trillion. “Despite all of this spending, wind and solar energy still produced only 3% of world energy consumption in the year 2018, while the fossil fuels (oil, coal, and gas) produced 85% between them,” they wrote. “This raises pressing questions about what it would cost to make the transition to 100% renewable energies.”

ust as important as the cost problem, the IEA report completely ignores the cartoonish amounts of territory that will be needed to accommodate a major increase in wind and solar deployment. It says “Our pathway calls for scaling up solar and wind rapidly this decade, reaching annual additions of 630 gigawatts (GW) of solar photovoltaics (PV) and 390 GW of wind by 2030, four‐times the record levels set in 2020. For solar PV, this is equivalent to installing the world’s current largest solar park roughly every day.” (Emphasis added.)

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4904 on: June 11, 2021, 11:52:22 AM »
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4905 on: June 11, 2021, 12:08:22 PM »
let's get the movement started

anyone know a place near them that they'd like to see a reactor built so they can save a few dollars a month on their bill and also help save the planet?
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4906 on: June 11, 2021, 12:12:05 PM »
I really wouldn't care, but it's also not going to happen near me.  Georgia Tech had a research reactor near me for many years but it was shut down a while back.

I was amused when visiting San Diego seeing three fleet carriers in the harbor across the way, six nuclear reactors sitting a mile or so from downtown.

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« Reply #4907 on: June 11, 2021, 12:21:41 PM »
I wouldn't care either, but folks 40-50 miles from me shut down a petroleum refinery, cause they didn't want the mess

many folks also don't want a meat packing plant built near them for various reasons

heck some folks don't want a cell tower or windmill put up within eyesight of their place 
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« Reply #4908 on: June 11, 2021, 12:38:12 PM »
This was operating pretty darn close to me up until 2013...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_Station

I didn't mind. Wouldn't mind them rebuilding a new one there either. 
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4909 on: June 11, 2021, 12:40:55 PM »
Vogtle has the only two new nukes under construction right now.  The Unit 3 is supposed to power up late this year or early next.

It had "delays and cost overruns" ....
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4910 on: June 15, 2021, 11:58:07 AM »
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Reaches New High Despite Pandemic Emissions Reduction | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

If "we" collectively really believed this is a massive issue, "we" would be doing a LOT more about it.

A 2019 report from the United Nations Environment Program says global greenhouse gas emissions would need to fall by 7.6 percent a year from 2020 until 2030 to keep warming below the 1.5-degree-Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold identified by the Paris Agreement.

Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer tells Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press (AP) that “the world is approaching the point where exceeding the Paris targets and entering a climate danger zone becomes almost inevitable.”

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« Reply #4911 on: June 15, 2021, 12:24:22 PM »
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« Reply #4912 on: June 15, 2021, 02:53:33 PM »
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« Reply #4913 on: June 16, 2021, 09:02:28 AM »
The Sokal Affair

In 1996, physics professor Alan Sokal submitted a parody article to the journal Social Text to see if the editors would publish it just because it "sounded good" and "flattered" their views. Though Sokal disregarded their requested edits, they still published his article. In a different journal, he revealed that his piece was a hoax meant to expose the unreliable nature of non-peer reviewed publications and the bias of "the academic Left."

https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Sokal+Affair
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