tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post9020971814411234444..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: 9-14-13 HodgepodgeGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-14322761237433163422013-09-17T03:36:31.216-06:002013-09-17T03:36:31.216-06:00"I’d guess you could gauge how beneficial or ..."<i>I’d guess you could gauge how beneficial or efficient an energy source is by the depth of their hostility. </i>"<br /><br />Considered in this light, their animus against fracking makes lots of sense.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-75653249384450088742013-09-16T19:55:34.564-06:002013-09-16T19:55:34.564-06:00Nuclear is actually a more viable replacement and ...Nuclear is actually a more viable replacement and is superior to coal in almost every way. (With the possible exception of the fact that nuclear will not cause a slow beneficial increase in global temperature – oh well, no power source is perfect). My evidence? In North America, the environmentalists knocked off nuclear first and are assaulting fossil fuels second, for a reason. At one point (when I was a child) they actually advocated oil and coal as better for the environment than nuclear. I remember the dinner table discussions with my father about this. Whatever works, they will attack, whatever works best, they will attack first.<br />I’d guess you could gauge how beneficial or efficient an energy source is by the depth of their hostility. <br />Know nukes!<br />Steve Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-32820261501186198972013-09-16T03:39:05.107-06:002013-09-16T03:39:05.107-06:00I'd forgotten all about Angela Merkel's kn...I'd forgotten all about Angela Merkel's knee-jerk reaction -- killing off Germany's nuclear power industry -- to Fukushima.<br /><br />That's even more incredible than the story I just blogged since at least nuclear energy is a viable replacement for coal power.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-74195490571059981022013-09-15T20:02:31.446-06:002013-09-15T20:02:31.446-06:00Germany too. I guess a lot of western Europe may b...<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/10303285/Romantic-Germany-risks-economic-decline-as-green-dream-spoils.html" rel="nofollow">Germany too.</a> I guess a lot of western Europe may be similar. (Though France gets a huge proportion of its power from nuclear plants.)Realist Theoristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02443210652365042245noreply@blogger.com