tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post2113936430969530807..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Climate Change HysteriaStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-27076726439011486382021-10-24T15:19:17.449-07:002021-10-24T15:19:17.449-07:00Anon, back in the '70s I was a Titan 11 missil...Anon, back in the '70s I was a Titan 11 missileer in and around Tucson and southern Arizona, and one night my topside alarms went off. I called that in to HQ and was told to go topside and check it out, as it had snowed , and the Air Police were not coming to check on the site. I got the rest of my crew up, put on my pistol, got one of my enlisted men a pistol, and up we went. Found 6" of snow all over the site. The horns (8 of them, 2 at each corner) were filled with snow, which we scraped out, saw that the only footprints were ours, and then returned below ground to the control center and called our sky cops to tell them all this. My deputy and the other enlisted crew member went back to bed. That was the only snow I saw in five years, but it was a GOOD one!Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-19240046398848819402021-10-24T08:09:18.839-07:002021-10-24T08:09:18.839-07:00I am a snowbird sitting here in Southern Arizona e...I am a snowbird sitting here in Southern Arizona enjoying the warmth. If global warming could be accelerated I could spend the winter back up North and it would be cheaper for me. So let's open up more coal fired generation plants. Lets get this planet warmed up!<br /><br />But let's be honest. The whole global warming thing is a big grift. Just another way to take your wealth and power from you. The world is laughing at us for being so stupid that we buy into this grift. So I guess we will just have to learn the hard way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-28109490077660629512021-10-22T08:35:25.509-07:002021-10-22T08:35:25.509-07:00If we were serious about the problems of burning f...If we were serious about the problems of burning fossil fuels and adding 100 million year old stored carbon into the atmosphere at a rate a 1000 times faster than natural average CO2 production from volcanoes, we'd accept greatly expanding nuclear power was necessary for the future of a modern economy.<br /><br />It is fun that Elon Musk imagines a city of a million people on Mars in a few decades while Mars has zero fossil fuels to burn, and even if we did find a 4 billion year old coal bed on Mars, there's no free oxygen to burn it. Also Mars averages something like -80F so without fossil fuels to burn to stay warm they're going to have to develop better technology in insulation to keep heat contains during the even colder nights and winters, and probably geothermal heat pumps will be needed. And solar power is only half as effective on Mars as the Earth, so they'll need more efficient solar energy. But only nuclear power can be the serious "base load" for power and heat on Mars so again, whatever tech they need to survive, we can reproduce on earth at perhaps 1% of the cost of doing on Mars.<br /><br />So I don't think Musk's vision is realistic, but all the problems we have to solve there can help us learn how to live more sustainably here as well, and as they say, stone age didn't end for running out of stones, maybe we'll find we'd prefer not to just keep burning 18th century fuels for the 21st century.<br /><br />Until then, I guess we just have to keep burning 100 million year old carbon because its food for plants and it creates a few thousand jobs. We just need to sit back and hope the Chinese invent better low-carbon technology and sell it to us, and then buying up our debt that we use to pay them.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-43947248903374617232021-10-22T08:21:38.696-07:002021-10-22T08:21:38.696-07:00When a scientific topic cannot be debated it is no...When a scientific topic cannot be debated it is no longer science and is more like religion.jmod46https://www.blogger.com/profile/02727446883638344885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-10682245748378489592021-10-22T08:13:09.564-07:002021-10-22T08:13:09.564-07:00Wind and solar have outputs that fluctuate not onl...Wind and solar have outputs that fluctuate not only from hour to hour but also from season to season, and sometimes, you will get days in a row in which the wind/solar output is minimal. While it may be possible to provide a few hours worth of battery or other storage, it's unlikely that, say, a week's worth could be provided at any non-bankrupting cost. Which means the capital cost of gas-fired or other fossil-fueled backup must be covered, even if these plants are used only for a small % of the year. (Or people and industries will have to get used to unreliable power, which seems to be considered as actually a *benefit* by certain 'green' advocates)<br /><br />re Nuclear, the GE-Hitachi venture has recently introduced a very interesting Small Modular Reactor system. <br /><br />https://nuclear.gepower.com/content/dam/gepower-nuclear/global/en_US/documents/product-fact-sheets/GE%20Hitachi%20BWRX-300%20Fact%20sheet.pdf<br /><br />Capital costs are said to be a lot lower than they are for current nuclear plants.<br /><br />Early probable customers are in Poland and Canada; not clear yet whether Karen will allow us to use these systems in the United States.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-85368844350359970072021-10-22T06:48:16.806-07:002021-10-22T06:48:16.806-07:00What I find most baffling about the Climate Change...What I find most baffling about the Climate Change cult is that the only option is to revert to medieval tech. Personally, I don't believe there is even much of a problem, but even if there were, shouldn't we debate options for dealing with it? In general, warmer is better for humans.<br /><br />That said, I'm also not particularly enamored of fossil fuels. I just watched an amazing documentary on East Anglica One - a giant, successful offshore windfarm. Space-based solar also has great potential. If we can do something about the price of nuclear plants, that also has great potential. There are reasons to look at all these things, but OMG! Melting Planet! is not one of them.markedup2noreply@blogger.com