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President Barack Obama hired Nobel Laureate Steven Chu as his Secretary of Energy. Steven Chu and I agree on the value of nuclear energy, but the value of nuclear energy is not determined by Steven Chu's or my opinion.
We have here advocates for the thermodynamic idiocy of declaring energy storage "green," because they think the more than 5.6 trillion dollars squandered on so called "renewable energy" has had any effect other than raising the demand for the mining of critical unsustainable metals and the destruction of vast tracts of wilderness has had an effect on slowing the destruction of the planetary atmosphere. It hasn't. We are more dependent on fossil fuels than ever. The atmosphere is degrading faster than ever. One of these types declared that the thermodynamic nonsense of a "hydrogen economy" was "green" because former Energy Secretary in the Biden administration, Jennifer Granholm, supported it. She also actively supported nuclear energy.
The support of Jennifer Granholm for a hydrogen economy has not changed, is not changing and will not change the horrible physical properties of hydrogen, nor the fact that it is overwhelmingly made by the steam reformation of fossil fuels, destroying exergy, making it a filthy enterprise. Her support for nuclear energy has no bearing on the fact that nuclear energy has the lowest output of carbon dioxide of any form of reliable, and for that matter, unreliable energy. Nuclear energy is cleaner and safer than everything else irrespective of what Barack Obama, Steven Chu, Jennifer Granholm or any other scientific or political figure thinks about it. It is a fact.
That I oppose the wind energy on the basis that the average wind turbine doesn't last 20 years before becoming landfill, that it destroys wilderness at sea and on land, that it depends on the use of fossil fuels, and that it is extremely unreliable. That the Orange Pedophile in the White House also opposes wind energy for whatever stupid reason passes through his deteriorating mind does not mean that wind turbines will last as long as nuclear plants nor the fact that they are driving the depletion of elements like neodymium, dysprosium and others that rightly belong not just to our generation but to all generations.
The fact that Adolf Hitler, to go full Godwin, called for, and ordered the development of the Volkswagen bug does not mean that the Volkswagen Bug did not have some of the best gas mileage and affordable costs in the 1960s and was very popular with the Baby Boomers then because it was affordable and reliable and easy to maintain.
I would have hoped that by the seventh grade, most people understood the basics of rhetoric. Here we are though, with adults who lazily offer up logical fallacies to support the unsupportable.
The laws of thermodynamics were present in the Universe throughout its history. Their discovery by the likes of James Maxwell, James Joule, Ludwig Boltzmann, Albert Einstein and many others did not change these laws, and the laws did not depend on their opinions and insights into them. They have always applied to the universe and always will. They are not important because Albert Einstein said they were. They are important because they are laws of physics.
The contempt for physics and humanity demonstrated by advocates of energy storage schemes on a planet where fossil fuels dominate energy is not reversed if they also hold the orange pedophile, as all decent people do, in contempt. However the fact that there are people who agree with my own contempt for the orange pedophile does not mean that I have any respect for poor reasoning on their part.
Have a nice day.
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