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Also, your replies could be read to make the following nonsensical argument: "Less wind is built than coal, less nuclear is built than wind, but we should build more nuclear because sadly not enough wind is built."

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 01:37:58 PM EST
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That's unfair and you know it.

As long as the debate is on "what to build" (supply-side issues rather than demande side issues) and that wind is not seen as a reliable (nor, by many, cheap) baseload source, then politicians and utilities will choose between coal and nuclear.

Coal is much less opposed than nuclear, and thus coal is being built.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 01:52:54 PM EST
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That's unfair and you know it.

Yes, that's why I didn't claim you actually made that claim, only that it can be read thus.

As long as the debate is on "what to build" (supply-side issues rather than demande side issues) and that wind is not seen as a reliable (nor, by many, cheap) baseload source, then politicians and utilities will choose between coal and nuclear.

That unnecessarily and unfairly constrains the debate to the narrowness of most politicians' views about wind power and load distribution today.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 02:00:41 PM EST
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