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NNadir

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4. Thank you, but the wind industry is neither sustainable...
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 12:22 PM
Feb 2019

...nor is it environmentally acceptable.

The fondness for it is tragic beyond words.

There are many reasons why offshore wind is even worse than on shore wind energy.

It's 2019. We're at 412 ppm CO2.

I've been hearing the conditional verb "could" about wind energy for at least 30 years.

It has never, despite incredibly constant and loud cheering, produced in a single year 1/10th as much energy as nuclear energy has been consistently been producing for the last 30 years despite endless specious vilification.

There are not and never will be any energy technologies that can match nuclear energy for sustainability. If any other technology were required to meet the standards people routinely attach to nuclear energy, this arbitrarily, they simply would cease to exist.

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