Should we 1) Self-flagellate our way into demographic collapse? 2) Support both pronatalism and geoengineering?https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/climate/climate-change-children.html?referer=https://t.co/ElgyqtnESu?amp=1#click=https://t.co/ElgyqtnESu …
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Replying to @primalpoly
Solar and wind energy are already solving the problem.pic.twitter.com/DX5dsIy7Nh
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Replying to @__ice9 @primalpoly
That decline is largely due to fracking and an increase in natural gas, not solar and wind. Also, nuclear fission is and always has been the only feasible solution to serious cuts in CO2 emissions, yet science-denying environmentalists oppose it to this day.
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Replying to @colorblindk1d @primalpoly
(a) looks pretty flat to me (b) solar and wind have approximately zero net operating emissions (c) natgas continues to emit CO2, albeit fewer outright pollutants than coal (d) either one can replace coal capacity up to the limits of on-demand power gen anyway
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https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2017/march/iea-finds-co2-emissions-flat-for-third-straight-year-even-as-global-economy-grew.html … IEA agrees with both of us
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Clarification (c) less so but still not as large of a difference as solar/wind
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Nuclear fission was once quite cheap, but... http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter9.html …
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Replying to @__ice9 @primalpoly
And that was largely due to insane regulations and public pressure led by environmentalists which continues to this day, that all rely on bad science and exaggerated threats.
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We are decades away from having the transmission and energy storage capabilities to rely entirely on wind/solar. We need large quantities of reliable uninterrupted energy. Nuclear is the only option for that. If we really cared about cutting CO2 emissions, we would go nuclear.
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I agree about the urgent need for more nuclear.
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