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NNadir

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1. One hopes that these storms will not shorten the already short lifetimes...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 03:13 PM
Thursday

...of all those wind turbines that were supposed to save the world but didn't.

The reactionary enterprise of making energy supplies dependent on the weather, this while ignoring the destabilization of the weather may have been ill advised.

I wonder if the antinukes whose spent decades doing a happy dance after having hyped wind and solar to attack nuclear energy by putting up these useless chunks of metal like dancing in extreme heat and extreme weather.

If, 40 years ago, when there might have still been time, these fools had not exercised their lack of education to attack the work of some of the finest minds of the 20th century, the outcome might have been different.

It's all floods, droughts, extreme heat under and over the bridge now of course, and all we have left is these malcontents gloating that it is now impossible for nuclear energy to do what it might have done.

From where I sit, watching the crocodile pretend to cry, it looks like the magical, expensive, highly promoted exercise in reactionary worship of so called "renewable energy" didn't do shit to prevent this outcome.

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