Reply #14: The point, in case you missed it, concerns future generations and our limited resources.

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The things are junk, even if they don't decapitate people, but, given that the wind industry doesn't produce significant energy, and our air head consumer denialist types are trying to make that square peg fit in a round hole, it may start killing people should it get to five exajoules out of the 500 humanity now produces.

The wind industry and the solar industry have been able to hide their external costs behind the fact that they are failures.

Personally, my opinion of the wind hand wavers is that they don't think very deeply, are not analytical, and are pretty lazy and glib.

Reliability matters, particularly in a time when there is this so much debt, some of which is looking like an increasingly fragile house of cards.

If you spend 10 billion dollars on something that lasts 10 years, when you might have spent it on something that lasts 60 or longer, you are fucking people in future generations, first by giving them no inheritance, and secondly, by viciously demanding they clean up the waste of your useless life.

I do think about future generations, and I couldn't fucking care less if you like it or not.