Reply #79: Your post, in that thread, was where the conversation was deleted.

[AtheistCrusader]

It was so, due to personal attacks. I am not an admin, and do not have that power. I was too busy discussing the issue with you to worry about petty shit. We were getting somewhere on my criticism of the baseplate capacity rating of wind farms, when the thread was destroyed.

Note I have not flipped out about baseplate/actual utilization since, since I learned something from that thread.

I do not know if you were able to read my last response before it was deleted, but I had thanked you for going off-script, and sitting down and doing the math and explaining your position on that matter of what the wind turbines could produce, versus what they DO produce.


In this thread, you may notice, I compared distributed utilization to a single centralized turbine. It is power source agnostic. COULD be nuclear, sure, but it can just as easily be another heat source, like concentrating solar, or a kinetic source like hydro (unfortunatey pretty much tapped out in this country already) or stored PV/wind in various pumped energy storage means.


How you read my personal enthusiasm for a rooftop energy source like wind, into trying to cast aspersions against all of wind power, including utility level centralized wind farms, I am still puzzled. I COULD have made such a disingenious comparison, and by all means I would expect to be reamed for it, but I did not. That 'turbine' is a good deal, at that price, with that wind cut-in speed and wattage, for some people/applications (me). And my interest is not just my own personal rooftop, but things like cell towers, remote forest service areas, etc. At no time did I exhort anyone to, for example, go out and buy these for installation on every house as a solution to our energy needs. (However, coupled with things like EV's as a home battery source, tied to the grid, it's a possibly feasible item, since charge controllers will already be present in the home)

The only dissapearing posts related to me, have been in threads where personall attacks were rampant. I do sometimes alert on some posts, but it is not a regular thing. I actually have pretty thick skin. For what it's worth, I once suspected you of purposely seeding threads with personal attacks, so if it went awry, you could have it deleted by alerting, but now that I have calmed down in butting heads with you, I don't actually believe that you do that intentionally, it just is. Not everything is a conspiracy.

Edit: Part of my recent 'mellowing' on nuclear power has literally been the failure of my early predictions of how Fukushima would not go 'bad'. Fukushima is several times worse than my understanding of the plant's designs could allow, I have eaten copious amounts of crow on the subject, and am incorporating that failure into a concept that I believed from a very young age to be clean, the future, and a technically surmountable challenge in the safety department. Not an easy thing to revise.