Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

D wrote:

  On Wed, 25 Sep 2024, William Hyde wrote:
 

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(Two-for-one for now, because we're behind on electric
generation capacity, and if we're going to have electric cars,
we'll need a lot more electricity to charge them.)
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The adamant opposition to nuclear power by the people who
are most gung-ho on the "Global Warming" thing unalterably
convinces me that they do not belive it themselves.

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Actually I am strongly pro-nuclear power, as are most climate scientists I know.

 Hmm, we agree on something. This scares me. ;)

Surely we both agree that the rat is black's best defense against 1e4?

 

Circa 2000 a group from Princeton came up with a plan to limit the warming to 2.5C which did not involve nuclear, but also did not involve catastrophic economic decline.  But even if we accept that this was possible then, it isn't now.  Nuclear is a must, at least for a few decades.

 As a scientist, do you thing SMR will see hte light of day or remain in
the darkness of research projects for another decade or two?

I do not have expertise in this field.  I cannot speak on this as a scientist but as a lay person.  Answer:  I don't know.

 

I am also pro-hydro, which most greens oppose, though it has to be carefully done (poorly placed reservoirs for dams can emit C02 and CH4 to such a degree that the power is only as clean as non-fracked natural gas.  Better than coal, but not good enough).

 Oh my dear hydro! Can you imagine if sweden built out more hydro
(fiercely opposed by the swedish green party)? What an energy abundance
we would have! Hydro and nuclear for the win!

I don't want to say that Hydro and Nuclear will solve our problems. There is no one solution.  But I don't think we can afford at this point to ignore any means of dealing with the crisis.
Nor will expanding Hydro and Nuclear be easy or cheap.
I spent the summer of 2023 coughing due to ash from unprecedented fires in forests which may no longer be sustainable.  Despite the beauty of a blood-red moon high in the sky, I'd rather have less of that in the future.
William Hyde