• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    11 hours ago

    I’ve been saying the exact same thing for decades. Imagine where we’d be today if we had embraced solar and wind 50 years ago?

    It’s all about boiling water anyway. Who cares how we boil it? Shouldn’t we boil it the cheapest, easiest way possible? The sun’s beating down, the wind is blowing, it’s easier to harvest that, than drilling holes a mile into the Earth.

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      7 hours ago

      Imagine where we’d be today if we had embraced solar and wind 50 years ago? I don’t want to break your imagination, but you “the US” are stuck in a loop. One step forward, two steps back.

      Columbine shooting was 27years ago and nothing was done. Except a “Pray For” on social network. Don’t expect too much from your country.

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      9 hours ago

      Imagine where we’d be today if, during the oil crisis of the 70s, we started working towards reducing our dependency on oil with intention.

      They all say it’d take 30 years. Ok, so if we started this endeavor after 9/11 we’d be in the home stretch.

      If we started this in 1980…

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      7 hours ago

      Funny you say it’s all about boiling water when neither solar nor wind power generation requires boiling water. Actually, even the forms of solar that do involve water typically don’t boil it but just heat it to disperse that heat in the house. The only form that involves boiling water that I’m aware of is a large mirror array that reflects light over a large area towards one target, which could be a boiler.

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      10 hours ago

      Imagine all the bribes that get lost. Some now dead guy couldn’t afford his 3rd yacht, and their children wouldn’t even make the three comma club

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      7 hours ago

      It’s all about boiling water anyway. Who cares how we boil it?

      Then you want nuclear power. When established, it’s cheap, reliable and scalable. And the only real solution to the growing demand.