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Comment Re:undeniable (Score 1) 110

Which figures? Land usage figures? Because that is mostly what he focuses on and he exaggerates the land usage of wind turbines to a fantastical degree, pinning it at 2 Watts per square meter.

He has it at 3 offshore. The London Array runs at about 3.2.

You've given a lot of reasons why he's wrong but the figures disagree. All I did was divide the yearly output buy a year and the land area.

Bu the way, Seagreen 1A is about 0.3 W/m2.

That would be around 107 Watts per square meter

You need to leave space between turbines...

Now, this is primary power, not just electrical usage, to be clear.

Yes, the book is sustainable energy without the hot air, not just sustainable electricity for current usages.

As for technological changes, solar cells have become more efficient and much cheaper.

A bit but insolation has not changed. Mackay quoted 20%,the best rooftop panels are about 25 now. So out of date, but it's not a huge change, either.

Comment Re:Seems like a magnet for terrorists... (Score 1) 217

Contrary to the scaremongering we hear, the world is not full of terrorists. They exist, don't get me wrong, but the reason we're so afraid of them is that our fear of them is incredibly useful for people who want to control us.

And also, the ones who do exist aren't engineers. So a shooting, or a stabbing, that's pretty easy to figure out how to do. Derailing a train? That's physics. Physics is much harder than pointing a gun and pulling the trigger.

Comment Re: Legacy Media BEFORE the war. "Ukraine are Nazi (Score 0) 137

Believing the Nazi's were defined by solely by their anti-semitism leads people to think Ukraine can't be Nazi since it has a leader of Jewish ancestry.

Ukraine can't be Nazi because it is not operated along Nazi ideals, and because the majority of the population is not made up of Nazis, not because of who sits in the big chair. Having Nazis in it doesn't make it Nazi. Nazis went all over the place, and there are descendants of Nazis who may still hold Nazi ideals all over the place. Ukraine has a neo-Nazi problem, but so does the USA. Do you call the USA a Nazi country? It sure does look a lot closer than Ukraine right now.

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