Your fatal trifecta ignores one, very obvious factor - an overabundance of stupidity! Have these people never heard of Germany? Have they never heard of France? Have they never heard of China?
You might suggest to these bozos that they STUDY Tim Maloney & Mike Conley's book, "Earth is a Nuclear Planet," for some eye-opening facts about nuclear power. Seriously, sir/ma'am, it is a very good book, and should be recommended reading for high school and above!
Unfortunately, I live in a region where the utility would consider building nuclear only "over their dead bodies." I have come to believe they don't know how to read.
Thank you for this! The Green Freaks have had sway on making an outsized impact on influencing energy policy and this helps to expose them. Keep up the great work!
Carbon dioxide (CO2) makes up approximately 0.04% of the Earth's atmosphere.
When natural gas is burned, the primary components of the exhaust are carbon dioxide (CO2), water vapor (H2O), and nitrogen (N2), with trace amounts of pollutants like carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) depending on the combustion efficiency and the quality of the natural gas; as natural gas is primarily composed of methane (CH4), the combustion process mainly produces CO2 and H2O when burning completely.
Natural gas can be filtered to produce a stream of nearly pure methane through a process called "gas purification" which removes impurities like carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and other hydrocarbons, leaving behind primarily methane; however, achieving perfectly pure methane is technically challenging and requires specialized filtration methods like pressure swing adsorption (PSA) or membrane separation depending on the desired level of purity.
While natural gas exhaust can be filtered to remove certain impurities and pollutants, it is not possible to filter it to be completely "pure" as it still contains primarily methane, which is a gas itself, and removing all traces of other components would be extremely difficult and likely not commercially viable.
Rather than venting the exhaust directly to the atmosphere it can be directed towards high tunnel greenhouses to grow biomass and other biofuel crops such as into algae ponds or tubes. This would absorb most of the effluent gases and reduce its environmental impact as well as production of renewable fuel sources.
But seriously, 0.04%?!!! The whole idea is utter rubbish.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), around 38.4% of electricity in the United States is used for residential purposes, meaning domestic use makes up roughly 38% of total electricity consumption. One way to reduce consumption is to build more efficient homes but nah, fuck that, right?
I never hear these climate activist provocateurs talk about any of that stuff OR about ways to make industrial more efficient.
Stupid.
I am saving up to buy land and build a poison free farm with energy efficient infrastructure AND building topsoil which sequesters carbon. For every 1% increase in carbon content of topsoil the water holding capacity is increased by about 26,000 gallons per acre. This is done with animals such as cows but also sheep, goats, poultry and heritage breeds of pasture pigs. Doing this increases biodiversity and the health and productivity of the land. It also reduces erosion.
Another “fatal trifecta” while they accomplish themselves of creating the cleanest state ever…do they realize that the wind blows and our weather systems move from west to east?
Your fatal trifecta ignores one, very obvious factor - an overabundance of stupidity! Have these people never heard of Germany? Have they never heard of France? Have they never heard of China?
You might suggest to these bozos that they STUDY Tim Maloney & Mike Conley's book, "Earth is a Nuclear Planet," for some eye-opening facts about nuclear power. Seriously, sir/ma'am, it is a very good book, and should be recommended reading for high school and above!
Unfortunately, I live in a region where the utility would consider building nuclear only "over their dead bodies." I have come to believe they don't know how to read.
Where do you live? I will check out Maloney and Conley. Have you read, "Shorting the Grid"? That's where the phrase "Fatal Trifecta" originates.
Thank you for this! The Green Freaks have had sway on making an outsized impact on influencing energy policy and this helps to expose them. Keep up the great work!
I tried to get an operator job with them at one time.
Thank you, Green Leap Forward!
Carbon dioxide (CO2) makes up approximately 0.04% of the Earth's atmosphere.
When natural gas is burned, the primary components of the exhaust are carbon dioxide (CO2), water vapor (H2O), and nitrogen (N2), with trace amounts of pollutants like carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) depending on the combustion efficiency and the quality of the natural gas; as natural gas is primarily composed of methane (CH4), the combustion process mainly produces CO2 and H2O when burning completely.
Natural gas can be filtered to produce a stream of nearly pure methane through a process called "gas purification" which removes impurities like carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and other hydrocarbons, leaving behind primarily methane; however, achieving perfectly pure methane is technically challenging and requires specialized filtration methods like pressure swing adsorption (PSA) or membrane separation depending on the desired level of purity.
While natural gas exhaust can be filtered to remove certain impurities and pollutants, it is not possible to filter it to be completely "pure" as it still contains primarily methane, which is a gas itself, and removing all traces of other components would be extremely difficult and likely not commercially viable.
Rather than venting the exhaust directly to the atmosphere it can be directed towards high tunnel greenhouses to grow biomass and other biofuel crops such as into algae ponds or tubes. This would absorb most of the effluent gases and reduce its environmental impact as well as production of renewable fuel sources.
But seriously, 0.04%?!!! The whole idea is utter rubbish.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), around 38.4% of electricity in the United States is used for residential purposes, meaning domestic use makes up roughly 38% of total electricity consumption. One way to reduce consumption is to build more efficient homes but nah, fuck that, right?
I never hear these climate activist provocateurs talk about any of that stuff OR about ways to make industrial more efficient.
Stupid.
I am saving up to buy land and build a poison free farm with energy efficient infrastructure AND building topsoil which sequesters carbon. For every 1% increase in carbon content of topsoil the water holding capacity is increased by about 26,000 gallons per acre. This is done with animals such as cows but also sheep, goats, poultry and heritage breeds of pasture pigs. Doing this increases biodiversity and the health and productivity of the land. It also reduces erosion.
Another “fatal trifecta” while they accomplish themselves of creating the cleanest state ever…do they realize that the wind blows and our weather systems move from west to east?
Another great essay. At the end I was think about the 2 headed snake fairytale I learned as a little kid. But that was just a fairytale right?
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to comment!
For a nuclear power reactor to be a physical system of the "complex" variety is a necessary but insuffient condition for it to be safe to operate.