Did anybody else see the 60 minutes interview with Bill Gates this weekend?
I thought it was interesting. Especially the part about 100% renewable was impossible and needing nuclear power to solve global warming.
I am sure Texas agrees – what with the power problems they have caused to their wind turbines freezing. When the sun isn’t shining and the turbines cannot spin (or no wind) – you need another source of power. Nuclear is the best option.
Addendum to previous post: The state’s power company had this happen before and did nothing to remedy the situation, despite having recommendations about what it could do.
Not a failure of renewables alone, as the resident liar would have you believe, but willful lack of precaution by the power company.
This won’t shock anyone, but: here’s the reason Cornyn, Cruz, and Cresnshaw have been lying about the energy situation in Texas.
A little longer discussion of the problems in Texas. This is the disaster that comes from putting right wingers and libertarians in charge of anything more complicated than peeling gum off the bottom of a table.
YouTube has some good videos about the Texas cold snap. In this one, Chris Matthews of MSNBC debunks the lies told about green power by state politicians and Fox News.
Did anybody else see the 60 minutes interview with Bill Gates this weekend?
I thought it was interesting. Especially the part about 100% renewable was impossible and needing nuclear power to solve global warming.
I am sure Texas agrees – what with the power problems they have caused to their wind turbines freezing. When the sun isn’t shining and the turbines cannot spin (or no wind) – you need another source of power. Nuclear is the best option.
rickA is wrong again. His consistency in not knowing what he’s talking about is the only thing he has going.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/texas-power-grid-crumples-under-the-cold/
Addendum to previous post: The state’s power company had this happen before and did nothing to remedy the situation, despite having recommendations about what it could do.
Not a failure of renewables alone, as the resident liar would have you believe, but willful lack of precaution by the power company.
This won’t shock anyone, but: here’s the reason Cornyn, Cruz, and Cresnshaw have been lying about the energy situation in Texas.
https://earther.gizmodo.com/how-much-the-oil-and-gas-industry-paid-texas-republican-1846288505
A little longer discussion of the problems in Texas. This is the disaster that comes from putting right wingers and libertarians in charge of anything more complicated than peeling gum off the bottom of a table.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/texas-blackout-preventable/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
YouTube has some good videos about the Texas cold snap. In this one, Chris Matthews of MSNBC debunks the lies told about green power by state politicians and Fox News.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-96D-H3M0a8
Yes, he’s partisan — but he’s also correct.