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Actually, the idea of using the wind to generate electricity is not a bad one. But they are just too big and clunky to be of any real use. Liberals make a huge deal out of a dozen wind turbines powering a few houses but it is just not a practical solution for an entire country. They could build wind turbines a lot stronger but it would add to the cost making it less efficient financially than fossil fuels.

I am not yet a fan of nuclear power. I think that has its problems too, cooling being just one of them. But, I admit I am not as up to date on the latest technology as I should be. We have people bitching about water use by data centers imagine their outrage over water usage by nuclear power plants.
 

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if she'd OnlyFans that shit, she'd get rich in the process
Greta would not suck the farts out of a cows ass, at least not to reduce carbon emissions. She is a fraud, a phony. She goes where the attentions is. There is no conviction in her beliefs.
 

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Actually, the idea of using the wind to generate electricity is not a bad one
For small scale it's actually useful as long as you have wind. Interestingly, even small cities don't allow residential wind power. Out in the counties though there's no such ban. I know several people who run their house mostly on wind.

A big liquor store out in the county tried to go wind - two 60-foot towers with good sized turbines mounted. After three years he could see it's never going to pay off. Lots of juice needed 24/7/365 for refrigeration there. So the application really does matter. It's not even close to viable on the large scale.
 

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We have people bitching about water use by data centers imagine their outrage over water usage by nuclear power plants
It's all mostly imaginary. Golf courses use far more water than either of those.
 

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For small scale it's actually useful as long as you have wind. Interestingly, even small cities don't allow residential wind power. Out in the counties though there's no such ban. I know several people who run their house mostly on wind.

A big liquor store out in the county tried to go wind - two 60-foot towers with good sized turbines mounted. After three years he could see it's never going to pay off. Lots of juice needed 24/7/365 for refrigeration there. So the application really does matter. It's not even close to viable on the large scale.
I hate to say if because I am not a bog fan of nuclear, but at some point we may have to embrace it as the main supply of electricity everywhere in the world. I think soar and wind will have limited uses for some time.

Maybe one day, the problems with the elusive cold fusion concept with be resolved and we will have cheap, limitless electricity to power our massive AI data centers and everything else. We're only 20 years away (as we have been for at least the last 60 years.
 

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I hate to say if because I am not a bog fan of nuclear, but at some point we may have to embrace it as the main supply of electricity everywhere in the world.
Navys all over the world run 100s of ships on nuclear power with nary an incident or problem. Not sure your problem with nuclear power. The fools in Europe used to lead the world in nuclear power, not they're starting to deeply regret phasing it out.
 

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Notice ZERO such until the fall of the USSR... All these commies needed a new lever. LOOK! I've always said this. They co-opted the environmentalist and conservation movements and related government institutions. And oh yeah the press.
 

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Earlier this month the German Association of Towns and Municipalities argued that billions are needed to help hospitals and nursing homes, which often have no air-conditioning, adapt to scorching temperatures.

"Hospitals need air conditioning – not only for patients but also for staff," its president Ralph Spiegler told the Rheinische Post. "We see an immense need for investment here, estimated at a minimum of 20 billion euros."

"It is also essential to specifically address the situation in retirement and nursing homes in order to account for climate change and equip their facilities in a way that is adapted to the climate."
 

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As a young boy I remember total lack of AC in schools and homes. We had a swamp cooler only, at home. TG&Y was air conditioned along with theaters, and some other places. I've sat in classrooms while it was 105 outside and no cooler at all, inside.

One day someone threw a switch and suddenly AC began to infiltrate everything, and by 1976 we were living in a home with "central heat and air" and only the schools themselves hadn't quite caught the AC bug. But by 1980, almost all had.

Today it's uncommon to see anything without AC.

Almost like it's a good idea.
 
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