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    That’s just factually inaccurate.

    Renewable energy is cheaper and more reliable than fossil fuel energy and the high gas prices are due to OPEC and US market manipulation as well as other geopolitical factors, not anything “regretta” (🙄) or other activists do.

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      @Viking_Hippie You’re obviously one of Klaus Schwab’s brain-washed minion. Sun don’t shine at night, wind blows randomly, hydro is great but only limited opportunities, and the Indians want to be able to fish unlimited salmon and are blaming the dams for not being able to do that, so yea, renewables are a problem.

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      @Viking_Hippie You’re obviously one of Klaus Schwab’s brain-washed minion. Sun don’t shine at night, wind blows randomly, hydro is great but only limited opportunities, and the Indians want to be able to fish unlimited salmon and are blaming the dams for not being able to do that, so yea, renewables are a problem.

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        You’re obviously one of Klaus Schwab’s brain-washed minion

        Alex Jones fanboy and/or antisemitic conspiracy theorist detected 🤦

        I don’t think billionaires or greenwashing faux-nonprofits like the WEF should exist. And no, Soros isn’t paying me to say that 🙄

        Sun don’t shine at night

        Ever heard of energy storage?

        wind blows randomly

        Nope

        hydro is great but only limited opportunities

        Which is why you combine it with other sources of renewable energy

        and the Indians want to be able to fish unlimited salmon and are blaming the dams for not being able to do that

        Nope

        so yea, renewables are a problem.

        Nope. Disinformation like what you’re spreading is the problem.

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          @Viking_Hippie Yes I’ve heard of energy storage, there is enough for about five minutes worth of electricity. Every heard of economics? There are only so many areas for pumped hydro and they are mostly tapped out. Lithium ion batteries have a habit of self-immolation and are prohibitively expensive and there isn’t enough accessible lithium on the planet to put a dent in the problem. What other brilliant ideas have you to offer?

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            there is enough for about five minutes worth of electricity

            That’s absolute nonsense.

            Every heard of economics?

            I have, yes. That’s part of why I’m arguing for energy production that’s cheaper in the short, medium, and long term and doesn’t rely on finite resources that have a deleterious effect on humanity.

            There are only so many areas for pumped hydro

            Pumped hydro? Wait, you’re talking about hydrogen powered cars now? 🤦

            Lithium ion batteries

            Are on the way out as alternatives such as sodium batteries are being researched and improved

            What other brilliant ideas have you to offer?

            Here’s one: shut the fuck up with your nonsense before you embarrass yourself further.

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                Well you are calling what I know to be fact the lies I base my world view on non-sense nonsense

                Fixed it for you.

                I know you are too out of touch with reality to have a coherent discussion with

                Right back at you, “infowarrior” 🙄

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                  Total world wide electricity generation is 17,400,000,000,000 watts, total battery energy storage 57,000,000,000, pumped hydro adds another 17,900,000,000 do the math and you can see why storage ain’t gonna get us there, at least not with existing technologies. The recent outages in Spain and Portugal were the direct result of unreliable renewable energy.

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                    Total world wide electricity generation is 17,400,000,000,000 watts, total battery energy storage 57,000,000,000, pumped hydro adds another 17,900,000,000 do the math and you can see why storage ain’t gonna get us there

                    Fun fact: the current amount of storage is not the maximum amount possible. You’re conflating current capacity with maximum capacity possible, which is idiotic at best and deliberately misleading at worst.

                    You might as well say that it’s impossible for me to ever roller skate anywhere due to not currently owning any skates.

                    at least not with existing technologies

                    First of all, that’s not true. Second of all, even if it was, that’s irrelevant as new and improved technology is constantly being developed in spite of luddites like yourself trying their hardest to make it stop.

                    The recent outages in Spain and Portugal were the direct result of unreliable renewable energy.

                    Nope. I ask again: don’t you ever get tired of lying all the time?

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            Ok so you’re a communist

            Wrong again. Unlike you, I’m no fan of authoritarianism.

            you think people should give you stuff free

            Nope

            deny them the means of production

            Wrong again.

            Don’t you ever get tired of trotting out your ridiculous army of strawmen?

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              @Viking_Hippie You’re no fan of authoritarianism yet you want authority over others access to energy and goods. And you want to deny people access to reliable affordable energy which is necessary to the production of damned near everything.

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                You’re no fan of authoritarianism

                Correct.

                yet you want authority over others access to energy and goods

                Incorrect.

                And you want to deny people access to reliable affordable energy

                Literally the opposite of what I’m advocating.

                which is necessary to the production of damned near everything.

                Fossil fuels? Nope. There’s literally no fossil fuel product or process that doesn’t have alternatives.

                The only reasons why fossil fuels haven’t been COMPLETELY phased out DECADES ago are billionaires and their conglomerates bribing politicians and buying media to spread disinformation and useful idiots like yourself helping for free.

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                  @Viking_Hippie Sure there are alternatives but nothing can be put in place overnight and the capacity should be there before you should down fossil fuel plants. Also the only real reliable alternatives that can be scaled are nuclear fission and geo-thermal, and geo-thermal is only available in some geographical regions, although in the US you could build enough capacity in yellow-stone to supply the entire country, the same namby-pambys that are panic’ing over carbon dioxide don’t want to risk diminishing the geysers. And most of them are also opposed to nukes.