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spencer wendt's avatar

Uh oh...I wrote about the energy issue on the other post. I wish I could link these two topics..

"Recitivist love" NO! hahahahah...

This is your bias. Your perspective is not from OVER HERE. The inclusion is a negative slant which is biased. We have a power problem. We need more and there are a variety of options; short term and long term. Short term, we are going to be all over coal and oil. We have the production capacity; short term - not solved, but definitely addressed. Long term the de-reg environment in place today, will open these new techs (solar - it's a transport prob, roofs are 0.001%, lots of room for future production - long haul solar is a joke; Nukes will be mini plants, on-site, focused customer supply)

Resolute Love = A love chosen with clarity, one that doesn’t repeat past mistakes

We are resolute rather than recitivist. :)

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Brooks Keogh's avatar

it's not that they love coal-they hate everything else that would require them to change their worldview and to think anew

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MikeC's avatar

I just looked at the DOE report - I don't get the same feeling? It talks about not closing existing plants (most of which is coal admittedly) and building new capacity. Also mentions using US's natural resources. But it also has batteries and solar in the assumptions for new generation. I think the headline is a tad dramatic (although I am also very concerned about the politicization of what should be technical decisions)

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Azeem Azhar's avatar

any increase in thermal coal is recidivist. and has to be read in context with other DOE statements

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