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In reply to the discussion: New magnetic fusion technology could be ready in 5 years [View all]kristopher
(29,798 posts)Clean energy is every bit as settled as climate change.
And if you'll notice the evasiveness and position shifting in the face of simple direct request for science is every bit as obvious when it is you claiming to be supporting your position as it is when the denial is targeting climate.
For example, I gave you the MIT study - you ignored it.
I gave you the problem with McKay's work - you went of on a tangent that is irrelevant to the nature of the problem with the work. All you did was make a cursory effort to try and score a rhetorical (and meaningless) point.
In other words, you can't support your position, yet you refuse to consider the validity of arguments that show your belief to be untrue.
Who would you believe?
The National Academy of Sciences?
Electricity from Renewable Resources: Status, Prospects, and Impediments
ISBN 978-0-309-13708-9
388 pages 8 x 10 PAPERBACK (2010)
America's Energy Future Panel on Electricity from Renewable Resources; National Research Council
Or how about the volume that first definitively established the capability and potential of renewables?
Renewable Energy, Sources for Fuels and Electricity
Burnham etal 1992 Island Press
Commissioned by the UN as input to the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.
And here is one more thought for you to consider. The forecasts on how long it will take offer a fairly wide range of scenarios. But, now that we have been seeing a great deal of movement over a couple of decades, we can see that the conservative models have been wildly inaccurate. While those that are the most optimistic are close to what is being delivered.