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An Economic Myth

https://open.substack.com/pub/matthewyglesias/p/this-economic-myth-needs-to-go-away?r=1k4qn2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email He raises...

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dsmithuva75
Oct 13, 2022

You won the day when you said, "stop subsidizing..."

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dsmithuva75
Oct 12, 2022

Every single one of those objections pertain to wind and solar energy projects as well -- the wind turbines and some solar captors kill birds and flying creatures, and the technology is unaffordable for what you get, with huge cost over-runs on the large projects.


It is also absurd to state that the cost of the techgnology is not likely to decline in the future -- can you name one other new technology that didn't become much more affordable in the near future?


Finally, conservation does not produce more water, it just restricts the useages we currently have. We need to be smart like Israel -- it is arguably the most advanced country technologically, and it springs (pun intended) fro…

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Lucian@going2paris.net
Lucian@going2paris.net
Oct 12, 2022
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No doubt wind turbines do kill birds. The industry is working on means to warn birds away. Not as much an issue with offshore wind. (Emissions from coal plants kill people.) Solar “power tower” technology has also killed birds that unfortunately try to fly through the concentrated light. Those types of plants are much more expensive than the solar panel type so we won’t see many more of them. The panels don’t kill birds, although we can argue about shading a bunch of land and the implications of that. Cost overruns are common on all large infrastructure projects. However, because of the modularity of wind and solar farms, the cost overruns have been smaller than say for nukes. And for …

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