I turned on my Furnace

[vacerator]

The thumb area of the lower peninsula of Michigan has farms. While it's a high alt /ult rt plus malitia concentration in pockets, there are many wind turbines on farms. Terry Nichols who sold fertilizer to Tim McVey was from Decker.
About nuclear power, very efficient but fusion would be better. No waste. Spent fuel rods may be safe when the storage vessels aren't breached, but the half life is still long. We are running out of places to even put plain trash.
My uncle worked at the Shippingport Pa atomic plant, and a friend who was a nuclear engineer at the St Onofore plant in California for Rockwell. I read the book We almost lost Detroit. After the Fermi 1 reactor overheating and near meltdown in 1965, the reactor is sealed in lead and concrete forever. Duquesne power and energy put warning sirens in the hills of Beaver valley Pa. More after Three Mile Island. Shippingport wasn't expanded but a coal and gas fired plant named Bruce Mansfield was built adjacent to it in the 70s.
Fermi 2 was built following the investigation which revealed that the Fermi 1 reactor scram was caused by a cooling line fin weld defect. It cracked off and blocked a valve. Inspection microfiche photos from the builder Babcock and Wilcox were missing so the faulty weld was never found.
So I too say use all energy sources. Drill baby drill? We all know most of that was happening on an island and on Park Avenue or in Palm Beach.

 

[pstehle]

I'm talking about The Grid, along with how solar/wind can efficiently contribute to it.
Sure, you see those alternative sources as something worthy.....
But they're not a constant form of generation, they depend on the weather to function.
As opposed to human-designed, monitored, and controlled energy that works 24/7/365. - AKA power plants.

Personally, I think windmills are ugly creatures, ruining the natural landscape.
And when they fail and fling their propellor bladed in a failure, they're dangerous and idiotic.
I seem to have read about how the ones out in the ocean have been deadly for ocean creatures too. - Even left-wingers have complained.

As for solar - they also have issues - disposal of worn-out panels due to the highly toxic materials in them, and questionable reliability of their control modules.
An old friend of mine put solar panels on their roof, praising them.
Now this friend lives in another house, in another state, because those panels and their control module in their garage failed while my friend was at work.
And burned the whole house down - they lost everything.

You keep up the rhetoric of how those so-called fabulous sources of power are worthy
But I highly doubt you'll win over many people. - likely the gullible ones at best.

Unfortunately, the gullible ones seem to hold sway these days... be it "climate change", covid, or any number of other hot buttons. It's a new day... (at least the inverter and switch gear for my little solar array is outside on a block wall, and there's not enough flammable material in it for the flames to reach the eaves. I'm in Phoenix, where the savings during the day are worth the $50 lease, but I'm looking forward to the day it all can come off the roof...)

 

[vacerator]

We likely shall do so, as common sense has been striking many nerves on many issues. Us elderly are dieing off, and young people will not want this current world. Many said the light bulb would also fail.