Climate Change? Nahhh ...

That was rather sweet of you.

 

[QUOTE="Mngwa, post: 4929339, member: 150927However, the fact remains, and you always brush this to the side, there is no place to put the radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. That's why there's not more of them. [/QUOTE]

I'm not brushing it to the side. I'm pointing out that multiple nations are brushing to the side because they know they're going to need it.

 

The horror.

“On March 29, wind turbines produced more electricity than coal and nuclear, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, an agency that collects energy statistics for the government, says.”

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/14/1092806582/wind-power-energy-source

 

OK.

 

The EIA notes that in the spring and fall months, nuclear and coal generators reduce their output because demand tends to be lower, which could contribute to why wind turbines produced more electricity that day.

But wind taking the No. 2 spot may be short-lived.

The agency says electricity generation from wind on a monthly basis has been lower than natural gas, coal and nuclear generation.

 

Do airline companies get sued when birds fly into their engines and die?

 

Some of you guys really, really, really need to work on your arithmetic (and interpretations that follow from it) ...

 

Thank goodness. The horror was short lived.

 

Maybe worth remembering that practical solar cells have been available to us since

1954.

Having first been demonstrated in

1883.

The principles for which were first observed in

1839.

This Month in Physics History

That every home in America isn't roofed with solar panels is an absolute scandal.

 

Windmills are much older, of course, and rivers and ponds have powered millwheels since at least the time of the Romans. Hydroelectric power is coming up on 140 years old. The oldest example of tidal power dates from 619 AD.

The question of a 'greenhouse effect' was first raised in 1824.

Scientists Have Been Talking About Greenhouse Gases for 191 Years | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

 

First real storage battery, mid-19th century.