Yes, I've heard your 'belief' on this before, and you still (Reply #9)

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Mon Jan 11, 2016, 05:40 PM

kristopher (29,798 posts)

9. Yes, I've heard your 'belief' on this before, and you still

...haven't supported your 'beliefs' with hard information. Why you persist is not recognizing the relevance of how the relative function of the generating sources dictates the economics is a mystery that only you know how to answer.

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53 replies	Author	Time	Post
Joe Romm: Why James Hansen Is Wrong About Nuclear Power [View all]	kristopher	Jan 2016	OP
I really appreciate this article.	Gregorian	Jan 2016	#1
Happy it helps.	kristopher	Jan 2016	#5
Nuclear is not going to 'solve it's nagging problems'	bloom	Jan 2016	#2
So much mental horsepower being wasted on the wrong problem.	GliderGuider	Jan 2016	#3
As if you'd know what the right problems are...	kristopher	Jan 2016	#4
Bless the witless minions of the so-called "natural" gas industry.	hunter	Jan 2016	#6
Yep, a baseload system around nuclear would lock in heavy natgas consumption	kristopher	Jan 2016	#7
Fuck this shit:	hunter	Jan 2016	#22
The world is what it is	kristopher	Jan 2016	#23
I'm not a "self loathing human..."	hunter	Jan 2016	#26
You may be right...	kristopher	Jan 2016	#27
What is it about this consumer economy you can't do without?	hunter	Jan 2016	#28
Any time there is trade there is a "consumer economy".	kristopher	Jan 2016	#33
Then we pass like every other "innovative" exponentially growing population that has gone before us.	hunter	Jan 2016	#34
"Special"?	kristopher	Jan 2016	#35
Biology. It's been around a long time.	hunter	Jan 2016	#36
That's your core argument?	kristopher	Jan 2016	#39
Is that all you got?	hunter	Jan 2016	#40
When you keep rephrasing the same point...	kristopher	Jan 2016	#42
KerTWANG!	Nihil	Jan 2016	#46
I believe the chief problem is one of perceived absolutes	OKIsItJustMe	Jan 2016	#8
Yes, I've heard your 'belief' on this before, and you still	kristopher	Jan 2016	#9
Romm’s stance appears to be similar to mine	OKIsItJustMe	Jan 2016	#10
No it isn't.	kristopher	Jan 2016	#11
Then you misrepresent my stance	OKIsItJustMe	Jan 2016	#12
Your stance is clearly stated in the thread linked above	kristopher	Jan 2016	#13
A clearer statement from Romm	OKIsItJustMe	Jan 2016	#14
Not true. You are reading very selectively (again).	kristopher	Jan 2016	#15
You must be mistaking me with a straw man	OKIsItJustMe	Jan 2016	#16
That isn't relevant to the topic.	kristopher	Jan 2016	#17
You claim I “have been an unambiguous promoter of nuclear power for years.”	OKIsItJustMe	Jan 2016	#18
It's a flat fact.	kristopher	Jan 2016	#19
Then prove it or apologize	OKIsItJustMe	Jan 2016	#20
Riiiiight...	kristopher	Jan 2016	#21
The long list of links given says its not (nt)	LouisvilleDem	Jan 2016	#52
Joe Romm is yet another arsonist complaining about forest fires.	NNadir	Jan 2016	#24
Riiiight.... " Regulators question CO2 plan for $19.3 billion Virginia nuclear reactor"	kristopher	Jan 2016	#25
As some kind of Luddite I disagree with you about many things...	hunter	Jan 2016	#29
The implication being that he is the true environmentalist	cprise	Jan 2016	#31
?	hunter	Jan 2016	#32
Here in this forum, about a decade ago...	cprise	Jan 2016	#30
Since, at 440 reactors nuclear only supplied about 2% of global final energy supply...	kristopher	Jan 2016	#37
2% ?	progressoid	Jan 2016	#47
Check the titles to the charts	kristopher	Jan 2016	#48
I get that. But who made that chart?	progressoid	Jan 2016	#49
Perhaps that's the question you should have asked then.	kristopher	Jan 2016	#50
Essentially, they look at opposite ends of this type of chart	kristopher	Jan 2016	#51
Has anyone produced an updated (e.g., 2015) version of that 2010 diagram yet?	Nihil	Jan 2016	#53
No. We can choose a high energy industrial society or not.	hunter	Jan 2016	#38
There you go again with meaningless metrics	kristopher	Jan 2016	#41
I've maybe slept with, but not quite fucked, some of your heroes.	hunter	Jan 2016	#43
I have no idea what you are talking about.	kristopher	Jan 2016	#44
Lucky you. It was just a dream.	hunter	Jan 2016	#45

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