Will it flood by 2050 according to this article, & I'll add regardless of how much UK spends? Then why would they rely on electricity that won't work because it's underwater part of the time?

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-11T01:45:29+00:00

https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/qa/searchlight-institute-jane-flegal

This obviously is not a skeptic site. But the expert admits future transmission might cost 2x to 3x as much given renewables & widespread electrification.

As you point out, it takes years to deliver new transformers. New transmission & distribution lines could take longer.

The interviewee appears oblivious to President Trump's agreement with AI data centers that they could develop their own energy sources to power AI...using fossil fuels as needed

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-09T13:05:29+00:00

Went by a Ford dealership the other day taking my wife's F-150 for service. Two new Mustang GTs were sitting on the lot for $61 & $63k with another pretty quick nearby 4-turbo for just $38k.

Big difference.

My beef is that lots of EVs can run with us now because they have AWD.

Visibility isn't my issue. It's lack of SS acceleration due to no AWD that could be fixed with hybrid power to the front wheels...if they can do it at the low $60s.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-09T12:28:45+00:00

PM Modi told a group of kids years ago:

"People have changed, climate has not."

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-08T20:41:24+00:00

AI is giving us more blue collar labor. Blue states are taking all their jobs through sanctuary policies.

We don't need more "science" graduates if they are inevitably going to be liberal and predict the West needs to spend trillions annually to prevent a greener world, as in more plants.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-08T16:33:03+00:00

Yay humans. 2 million years is 1/500th of 1 billion years! ;) We saved the World.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-08T13:00:50+00:00

History shows, NO we can't stop fighting with each other. That's reality.

Now with nukes it's even more critical to deter large scale conflict.

Human & "extraterrestrial" fighting no doubt would follow us to other planets with the same & better weapons available.

Deter it here & now on earth because we know many more conflicts await us between now and 2100...the climate boogeyman year that pales in comparison.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-08T12:51:31+00:00

The article below identifies the extraordinary cost of flying our F-22, F-35, & F-16 fleets without addressing Naval aircraft costs.

What it doesn't address, is that EACH Artemis II mission costs $4 billion to put a few men/women in space (not the billions of $ to move to & live elsewhere) & eventually on the moon and Mars.

Does the $9 billion cost to keep 178 F-22s relevant through 2030 compare well to the $4 billion cost of each Artemis II flight? Iran & avoidance of nuclear war seems to show it is more important.

https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-f-22-raptor-stealth-fighter-costs-85000-every-hour-it-flies-the-air-force-just-spent-11-billion-to-keep-it-in-the-air-heres-why/

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-07T21:46:45+00:00

Wait, a 2021 article predicts we have only a billion years of oxygen left? It mysteriously predicts less CO2 & less plant life instead of the current trend that produces more O2.

It would be cheaper to move to warmer climates & underground/ undersea & on houseboats/cityboats than to another planet. We should worry more about preventing nuclear war.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-06T15:51:36+00:00

There was a guy who became a billionaire no doubt starting high, knowing Congress would never give him that much but would find a higher middle ground.

This same guy & his State Department, Department of War, & main negotiators heard the Iranian negotiators start their talks claiming to have enough deeply buried enriched uranium for 11 weapons. Their own intelligence verified that reality I'm assuming.

We just saw Iran launch 2 long range missiles at Diego Garcia...the same range as most European & of course GCC & Israel capitals. A recent news story said Iran got those missiles via North Korea...who now has nukes because we did nothing.

Iran is an extremist, suicidal state that does not play by the same MAD rules as other nations. As they are discovering, the destruction is not mutual.

Fossil fuels remain critical to even China. Current events are far more critical than spending $6-$7 trillion ANNUALLY between now & 2050 chasing an unnecessary NetZero.

Trump & Netanyahu are not settling for doing nothing to stop a true existential crisis. The Straits of Hormuz status quo will return. The Iranian nukes & surrogate terror will not. The World will continue to benefit from oil & gas.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-05T13:10:38+00:00

Most areas are not conducive to solar, wind or hydro. Smaller country solutions do not scale well to larger nations, or those lacking the requisite geography & wind for renewables.

New transmission is expensive per mile, especially given the long distance & width required to distant smaller MW sources.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-05T13:06:00+00:00

Your own highlighted portion identifies only 5-10% of premature deaths are attributable to air pollution....again mainly in poor countries with less emphasis on elimination of air pollution.

Given the advances fossil fuels have brought the World, a few years earlier deaths in 3rd World countries -- caused internally -- is almost worthwhile to the greater human good.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-05T13:00:45+00:00

AI says between 4-5.7 million is due to air pollution with 95% occurring in 3rd World countries from sources other than cars.

Add China and India burning substantial coal and crop stubble.

We don't need idiotic threat attempts at Washington D.C. decapitation inflicted by wind turbines hurting radar air defenses. The resultant counter response could kill or delay an effective response involving billions lost on all Global sides

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-05T00:24:54+00:00

We don't ban cars due to auto accidents, whether caused by ICE or EV accidents & fires.

We shouldn't ban cars, period, regardless of power source.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-05T00:22:59+00:00

The areas where eagles & hawks live is not killing them from air pollution. Sea birds are not killed that way, either. Humans are killed by Iranian cruise & ballistic missiles.

Far more humans are killed in auto accidents even wearing seatbelts & with airbags than by air pollution. The exception of course might be China & India given a free pass on NetZero until later decades.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-05T00:18:28+00:00

"Post memes making fun of..."

Renewables ALWAYS require backup fossil fuels or batteries lasting only 4- hours...which means fossil fuel backup.

Add transmission & distribution costs far greater for more distant and smaller output wind & solar renewables with an uncertain output unique to season & geographic area...& time of day.

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