<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:14 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="im">On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>If it became that popular then environmentalists would organize protest marches and sing songs against wind power because it disrupts the movement of global air patterns, kills birds, and is ugly and noisy. Environmentalists never met a large scale energy source they didn't hate so wind power, or anything else for that matter, is OK only if it remains tiny, uneconomic and impractical and doesn't come anywhere close to actually solving the problem.<br>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The root of this is that most "environmentalists" are simply anti-capitalists or anti-humanists who dress up in something a little more palatable to the masses. Who hates a polar bear? Nobody. Who wants to sit their ass out on the ice next to the bear? Nobody. Who wants everybody else to sit their ass out on the ice next to the bear? The environmentalists.</div>
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> Renewable deployment rate runs short a factor of 100, </blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Because environmentalists refuse to even consider renewable energy sources like thorium reactors. <br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I recently spoke with a group of retired engineers who used to work for the </div>Idaho National Laboratory. They indicated that they had once built and detonated a thorium based nuclear weapon, which I thought was interesting. Most of the thorium advocates claim it is safer in terms of nuclear weapons proliferation. Perhaps it is really difficult to make a bomb out of thorium, but apparently, it is possible.<div>
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<div><div class="gmail_quote">Well if its too late and nothing can be done then continuing to
blab about it is utterly pointless. Let us enjoy the little time we
have left before the environmentalists get what they want and we all
freeze to death in the dark. <br></div><br></div><div><div class="im"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
> WHY DO YOU THINK I BOTHER WRITING THIS CRAP?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I have no answer to that.<br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Because Eugen's wind is a renewable energy source? ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div>
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