re: #139 myfriendwatson

Well, I’m hopeful that we can live in a world someday where the ice never melts and glaciers never retreat.//

Anyone want to be how this would go: get the govt to set up a solar plant that would equal the output of a nuclear plant. Stick it in the Mojave outside Palm Springs. Get it done in nine months. Bring in the water that will be necessary to keep the solar panels clean. Get it up and operational.

Seriously, does anyone think that scenario is even possible. Does anyone think the enviromentalists would let it happen?

Right now, it wouldn’t fly. Nimby Environmentalists are the other wing of stupid, flapping right in synch with KnowNothing Republicans. They too need to grow up. This is too serious a problem to be squeamish about killing a few desert toads with the shade beneath a solar power plant, or a few birds with a windmill farm, or to fret that a five mile deep hole into permanent salt deposits, filled with nuclear waste, will somehow spring a leak and irradiate the planet and we’ll all be eaten by elephant sized fruit flies.