SOLAR POWER DERIDED
The Australian public has been brainwashed by anti-nuclear propaganda from the likes of Helen Caldicott:
Prime Minister John Howard has dismissed a poll which shows only 17 per cent of Australians back nuclear power while almost half think solar power is the best way to tackle climate change.The International Energy Agency supports Howard:
Mr Howard, who has been promoting a nuclear energy industry for Australia, derided solar power as a soft answer which would never be able to replace coal-fired electricity.
For the first time in its 32-year history, the agency is recommending widespread adoption of nuclear power.At least Australia has plenty of places to safely dump the waste.
posted by Anonymous at 8:58 PM |
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Prime Minister John Howard has dismissed a poll which shows only 17 per cent of Australians back nuclear power while almost half think solar power is the best way to tackle climate change.
This is the equivalent of asking the public "Would you rather mop the kitchen floor, or have it magically cleaned by tiny bleach pixies?" Of COURSE solar would be preferable to nuclear... if it could provide the amount of power we need, which it can't.
Of course if 79% said they thought spaghetti grew on spaghetti trees that would prove that spaghetti comes from trees, same as when 81% say they don't believe in evolution, it means evolution's isn't true (only a "theory" y'know).
Of COURSE solar would be preferable to nuclear... if it could provide the amount of power we need, which it can't.
Quite so, blandwagon. The envirotards who push solar power ignore the fact that terrestial insolation is severely limited in terms of solar density, not to mention the inefficiency of the various technologies available to collect, transport, and use solar energy.
Solar power, at best, is a supplemental power source, not something that should be depended on for base line power. At least not without a major breakthrough that increases the efficiency of collecting and converting it.
Their ignorance of basic physics is appalling and often (I think) deliberate.
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