Windmills, solar, tidal - all a 'false hope', say Stanford PhDs:
Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that renewables will never permit the human race to cut CO2 emissions to the levels demanded by climate activists. Whatever the future holds, it is not a renewables-powered civilisation: such a thing is impossible.
Very interesting. Even google gave up on this over a year ago - and, as the article points out, Google's RE<C program wasn't restricted to conventional energy solutions (like solar and windmills) but included geo-thermal, solar-thermal etc.
In fact the article goes on to state that only ONE form of energy actually meets the requirements: nuclear.
As applied at the moment, of course, nuclear power isn't cheap enough to provide a strong economic rationale. That's because its costs have been forced enormously higher than they would otherwise be by the imposition of cripplingly high health and safety standards (in its three "disasters" so far - Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima - the scientifically verified death tolls from all causes have been and will be zero, 56 and zero: a record which other power industries including renewables can only envy*).
The part about the artificial increase of the waste disposal is interesting too, pointing out that over 99% of the waste isn't even radioactive (and the tiny bit that is radioactive can be reused in the reactor anyway). And that other industries of power are actually less safe.
Very interesting.
