Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Thanks to the nuclear-energy advocates, we get the dirt on wind and solar

The environmentalist ideology is coming into contradiction with itself. The unprecedented scale of destruction of the natural landscape by 30 000 gigantic wind turbines has brought a growing realization, that reliance on renewable energy is by no means friendly to the environment – and not necessarily safe. 
People don’t want to live near wind turbines, because of unpleasant noise and possibly dangerous infrasound emissions, disturbing optical effects, reports of fires, broken-off turbine blades flying through the air, ice throws, etc. And the dead birds.
https://asiatimes.com/2020/01/germanys-overdose-of-renewable-energy/ 

Sunday, February 9, 2020

Nuclear backfires, Japan turns to coal

[after Fukushima accident] total electricity consumption dipped only slightly. Where did Japan make up the difference? Fossil fuels. These went from 62% of Japan’s electricity production before the disaster to about 80% after...

...the country is still on track to add more than 20 coal plants in the next five years. These plants are expected to emit as much carbon as all the passenger cars in the U.S.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-05/japan-turns-to-coal-after-closing-nuclear-power-plants?