American Physical Society Sees The Light: Will It Reject Climate Alarmism?

ZappasGuitar said:
Now now now...

Don't get all huffy just because I pointed out the inaccuracy in the Breitbart article you cited.
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Here is the wood!

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Here are the trees!

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Here is the nit you keep picking!

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Abraxas said:
My God, you are an eternal pessimist aren't you. As I stated before, the shameful waste of resources going into useless windmills and solar power would be far better directed at developing thorium and fusion reactors. The JET at Culham was never intended to be a working reactor, it was built to prove the basic theoretical principles are correct.
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But windmills and solar power are PRODUCING POWER right now, for people all around the globe.

When physicists can produce a controlled fusion reaction that does NOT require more power to initiate than it produces, AND MAINTAIN IT, then I will jump on board.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
But windmills and solar power are PRODUCING POWER right now, for people all around the globe.

When physicists can produce a controlled fusion reaction that does NOT require more power to initiate than it produces, AND MAINTAIN IT, then I will jump on board.
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Making electricity from cowshit could be done now and would probably need a lot less subsidies as well. Fracked gas power stations require no subsidies at all and are clean, efficient and always on as indeed are 3rd gen fission power stations. If wind and solar are so wonderful and all, explain to me why Germany is building over 20 new coal power stations?
 
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Abraxas said:
Making electricity from cowshit could be done now and would probably need a lot less subsidies as well. Fracked gas power stations require no subsidies at all and are clean, efficient and always on as indeed are 3rd gen fission power stations. If wind and solar are so wonderful and all, explain to me why Germany is building over 20 new coal power stations?
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Because, although renewable energy now accounts for 20% of Germany's energy output, and the Country plans of getting 80% of it's power from renewable sources by 2030, right now, the coal burning plants are a bridge that will allow Germany's industrial economy to thrive until enough renewables come on line.


"At least until 2030, or 2050, Germany will have to have some fossil-fuel energy," said Jutta Blankau, Hamburg's environment minister and director of the city's Office for Development and Environment, in an interview at her office. "Hamburg is one of the industrial centers of Germany. For now we can’t support that through renewable energy alone. We need coal and gas plants to complement power from renewables."

The speed with which renewables have taken hold has posed a challenge to utilities that rely on fossil fuels, because federal laws require the grid to use all the available renewable energy before turning to coal or other fossil fuels.

As a result of the changing economic playing field, more than two dozen proposed coal power plants that would have generated almost 25 gigawatts have been mothballed.

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/2...greenest-city-building-coal-fired-power-plant
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Because, although renewable energy now accounts for 20% of Germany's energy output, and the Country plans of getting 80% of it's power from renewable sources by 2030, right now, the coal burning plants are a bridge that will allow Germany's industrial economy to thrive until enough renewables come on line.


"At least until 2030, or 2050, Germany will have to have some fossil-fuel energy," said Jutta Blankau, Hamburg's environment minister and director of the city's Office for Development and Environment, in an interview at her office. "Hamburg is one of the industrial centers of Germany. For now we can’t support that through renewable energy alone. We need coal and gas plants to complement power from renewables."

The speed with which renewables have taken hold has posed a challenge to utilities that rely on fossil fuels, because federal laws require the grid to use all the available renewable energy before turning to coal or other fossil fuels.

As a result of the changing economic playing field, more than two dozen proposed coal power plants that would have generated almost 25 gigawatts have been mothballed.

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/2...greenest-city-building-coal-fired-power-plant
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Now for the real story!

http://www.thegwpf.org/renewables-fiasco-doldrums-clouds-bring-green-electricity-production-halt/

http://theenergycollective.com/will...enewable-energy-costs-damage-germanys-economy

http://www.spiegel.de/international...ainst-subsidies-for-solar-power-a-866996.html
 
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