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@boonhet @LandedGentry She was a school girl that did a lot of societal harm.

@iAvicenna Yea, you have the typical communist mentality, if you don't have enough goods, it's not because there aren't enough goods, it's because they aren't equally distributed.

The Bolsheviks had this mentality. They had a few big land owners farming the land and providing food for the masses. But the Bolsheviks thought everyone should own an equal amount of land, so they took it away from the farmers, divided it up, and gave it to all the plebs.

The end results, the new land owners didn't know how to farm and ten million people starved to death.

@Viking_Hippie Not lying. It is a well known if not widely admitted to fact.

Total world wide electricity generation is 17,400,000,000,000 watts, total battery energy storage 57,000,000,000, pumped hydro adds another 17,900,000,000 do the math and you can see why storage ain't gonna get us there, at least not with existing technologies. The recent outages in Spain and Portugal were the direct result of unreliable renewable energy.

@Viking_Hippie Sure there are alternatives but nothing can be put in place overnight and the capacity should be there before you should down fossil fuel plants. Also the only real reliable alternatives that can be scaled are nuclear fission and geo-thermal, and geo-thermal is only available in some geographical regions, although in the US you could build enough capacity in yellow-stone to supply the entire country, the same namby-pambys that are panic'ing over carbon dioxide don't want to risk diminishing the geysers. And most of them are also opposed to nukes.

@Viking_Hippie Well you are calling what I know to be fact non-sense so I know you are too out of touch with reality to have a coherent discussion with.

@Viking_Hippie You're no fan of authoritarianism yet you want authority over others access to energy and goods. And you want to deny people access to reliable affordable energy which is necessary to the production of damned near everything.

@Viking_Hippie Yes I've heard of energy storage, there is enough for about five minutes worth of electricity. Every heard of economics? There are only so many areas for pumped hydro and they are mostly tapped out. Lithium ion batteries have a habit of self-immolation and are prohibitively expensive and there isn't enough accessible lithium on the planet to put a dent in the problem. What other brilliant ideas have you to offer?

@Viking_Hippie Ok so you're a communist, you think people should give you stuff free but deny them the means of production at the same time.

@iAvicenna I think I am entitled to make my own decisions with respect to whom to direct my anger at.

@Viking_Hippie You're obviously one of Klaus Schwab's brain-washed minion. Sun don't shine at night, wind blows randomly, hydro is great but only limited opportunities, and the Indians want to be able to fish unlimited salmon and are blaming the dams for not being able to do that, so yea, renewables are a problem.