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Saturday, January 13, 2024

Steps to Converting to Nuclear Power

 You can know that the "Save The Earth" types are hypocrites and that their "concern" for the environment is a mask for their true goals by the fact that they refuse to countenance the generation of electricity via nuclear power.

0) "Green/Renewable" energy is a pipe-dream, at best, but mostly a scam with multiple objectives;

1) Battery-powered cars will almost certainly never meet our needs;

2) Even *if* battery technology does ever advance to the point that battery-powered cars could meet our needs, that electricity has to be generated somehow (*cough* natural gas/oil/coal *cough*), and the grid must be made robust enough to get that huge increase in electrical demand to where the demand is;

3) THUS, if our society is to pivot away from burning hydrocarbons to meet our transportation needs, battery-powered vehicles will never truly be the answer;

4) One potential answer -- and for which we already have most of the necessary technology -- is to burn hydrogen, rather than hydrocarbons, in our vehicles;

5) However, burning hydrocarbons to produce the hydrogen to provide our transport needs merely wastes hydrocarbons; that is, burning natural gas/oil/coal to produce electricity to use the electricity to produce hydrogen would inefficiently use even more hydrocarbons than we currently use to get the same result;

6) And this is where the nuclear generation of electricity could solve the issue that the greenies and other leftists pretend to be so concerned about -- nuclear power plants could both power the grid to our homes and businesses *and* power the plants which generate the hydrogen we burn in our newfangled cars, and the existing infrastructure for the distribution and sale of gasoline can be converted to distribute and sell hydrogen fuel. 


EDIT (2024/03/11):

Sabine Hossenfelder: Hydrogen Will Not Save Us. Here's Why.

2 comments:

K T Cat said...

I liked the meme at the end. You're spot on with the need for nukes.

Ilíon said...

While I'm not convinced that petroleum is a "fossil fuel" -- that is, I believe that petroleum is constantly being produced by the microorganisms which live deep within the earth's crust -- I also expect that we're using it faster than it can be re-generated. And we do have much better uses for petroleum than making gasoline and burning to to generate electricity.