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3. Thank you for explaining your belief.
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 06:36 PM
Wednesday

So: "...the combined solar and wind industry combined has never, of sybaritic bourgeois saturnalian enthusiasm, not once, produced as energy as nuclear energy produces routinely in an atmosphere of malign (and ignorant) criticism".

Even though I love that phrase "sybaritic bourgeois saturnalian enthusiasm" and, if you don't mind I'll try to use it myself some day, my main take away is that you feel renewables don't (or can't?) produce as much energy as nuclear energy.

I basically agree with you about the downsides of lithium batteries, although they have their uses. I disagree about hydrogen if it is produced by nuclear or renewable energy.

I thought I might be missing something important, but apparently not.

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