Comments on: Why green power won’t replace nukes https://calwatchdog.com/2014/12/17/why-green-power-wont-replace-nukes/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 06:22:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: T Mind of your Ted Godhead System https://calwatchdog.com/2014/12/17/why-green-power-wont-replace-nukes/#comment-105895 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:33:12 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=71536#comment-105895 In reply to Dork.

As if…..

]]> By: Dork https://calwatchdog.com/2014/12/17/why-green-power-wont-replace-nukes/#comment-105833 Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:00:04 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=71536#comment-105833 The last thing in the world a dictator, tyrant, or emperor wants is a happy, comfortable population of serfs. We will destroy freedom and liberty, that is the goal. We will use everything possible in the name of the Environment to make as many people we can, dependent on government. They will vote for us just to keep their pitiful lives intact. The more people that depend on us the better off we are. Get used to sitting in the dark and may those chains rest lightly on your skin.

]]> By: T Mind of your Ted Godhead System https://calwatchdog.com/2014/12/17/why-green-power-wont-replace-nukes/#comment-105697 Thu, 18 Dec 2014 03:38:48 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=71536#comment-105697 While these intellectual luddites are sort of correct at least temporally, one day in the future these ignorant comments will appear funny.

]]> By: Ronald Stein https://calwatchdog.com/2014/12/17/why-green-power-wont-replace-nukes/#comment-105624 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:54:10 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=71536#comment-105624 Unless you’re a caveman hiking in Yosemite, barefoot and naked, virtually everything you see, touch, and use in your daily lives is derived from the benefits of our use of one or more of the fossil fuels; oil, coal and gas. The availability of cheap, plentiful, reliable, scalable, and dependable supplies of fossil fuels has industrialized the world and improved every aspect of the lives of billions of people worldwide.

Fossil fuels have dramatically improved our ability to make our environment healthier and safer from natural and man-made threats. Fossil fuel energy, by enabling us to cheaply build and run wondrous machines that give us the mobility to choose any particular climate and the ability to increase the livability of the climate, has made us masters of climate.

The increasing use of fossil fuel energy has been the foundation of the industrialization of civilization from the development of machinery and products for: transportation systems, sewage treatment, sanitation systems, water purification systems, irrigation, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, genetically improved crops, agricultural productivity, dams, seawalls, heating, air conditioning, sturdy homes, drained swamps, central power stations, vaccinations, pharmaceuticals, medications, eradication of most diseases, improvements in manufacturing productivity, electronics, communication systems, and so on.

As the use of fossil fuels has been accelerating over the decades and will continue throughout the developed and the developing countries worldwide, supporting every infrastructure and every industry, the use of antipollution technology has dramatically DECREASED the major pollutants that come from fossil fuels.

Thanks to technology we have been able to minimize, neutralize, and reverse pollution. Over time, these technological advances, as they became economical, became mandated by law. Case in point, in the past 40 years, California’s population has nearly doubled to its present 38 million, but the air quality has gotten better, not worse.

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