My Engineering Ethics professor did a whole section of our class on Nuclear Energy a few years ago, and he showed us how the dangers have been ridiculously overblown and that the fear is completely unjustified. It kinda blew my mind. I just thought to myself "what the hell, if this is true why doesn't anyone know about this?" That is what drew me to Alex's thinking. No one even knows that there CAN be another side to the debate. We just grow up believing the classic propaganda is true. Alex shows people that there is another side, and that it can be very strong.

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Always refreshing to listen to and witness Alex's thoughts. Thank you for posting this.

Excellent discussion.

Welcome back. It seems like you were in a void somewhere. Either way, I'm glad to see new content.

Glad to see you’re back, Alex.

There is no doubt the ice caps are melting and the oceans are heating up in the thin atmosphere without ozone. These aspects are undeniable.

We dont have much data on deaths from mining renewable energy minerals because the Congo does not record how many children die from mining cobalt by hand nor do they track the long term health consequences.

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No new Saudi Arabia? Alberta Sask and the northern interior of British Columbia are the New Saudi Arabia. Except.... We aren't easy to manipulate or coerce. Which may be the REAL reason why we are being bottled up, instead of allowing our product access to any given tidal waters port under exclusively Canadian control.

Haha that guy just randomly threw that opinion about tax credits out there

The replacement of obsolete and dangerous power plants with safer cleaner and less expensive Edison generators and dynamos power plants is the blockade to survival.

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Last summer, I engaged in a 2-part online debate with Michael Lynch. The debate was titled ""Ethanol Performance: Rauch vs. Lynch." It was moderated by Robert Bradley, Jr. and hosted on Mr. Bradley's

Edison generators use the field magnets to move the armature magnets and coils of copper wire. Tesla bound Edison's generator with magnets all around the armature and used water to turn the armature and copper wire coils. All generators use inverters and transformers to deliver high voltage AC power. Edison's power plants are very inexpensive and operated locally. This precludes the need for high voltage power lines. A power plant and substations can power an entire city with 120 volt AC power lines.

Magnets are the actual energy source and iron and copper. It is possible to power an entire country without fossil fuels nuclear power or plastic solar panels and toxic batteries.

Good to see Alex again, and I wish there were more open minded people like Michael Lynch, I'm checking out the book on discontent that he is recommending. I think many people forget that we wouldn't be here today at our level of technological progress if it weren't for the generations before us that had to pollute in order to survive. We used to deforest (look at Haiti) on a large scale, then we discovered coal, whale oil, kerosene, oil and its derivative gasoline. Natural gas, nuclear and now solar (wind I'm skeptical about) is coming on board although the problem of generating energy during the night and in places where there is little sunshine is still a challenge because you require backup power from fossil fuels. My concern is that the political class has other motives and therefore they have a vested interest in stalling progress. Machines make life so easy that it created a leisure class and the entertainment industry but now we are hearing about robot taxes and the dangers of robots replacing humans. Bill Gates wants a robot tax based on the differential in productivity, if you apply that model Microsoft would be out of business within a week, a spreadsheet program alone saves billions in processing time.

We are wasting our reservoirs generating electricity. We should replace hydroelectric power plants with edison generators dynamos with inverters and transformers.

Geological scale and existencial threatening climate change but the seriousness of climate change is not as relevant as the reality and the technologist change to avoid what may or may not be extinction.

If all you know of climate change is carbon dioxide and greenhouse effect then what you are saying has some truth. Why not change? No ice and oceans too hot for fish might be inconvenient but why not avoid this and manage the environment to maintain life parameters.