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tahanson43206

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Registered: 2018-04-27

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Re: OldFart1939 Postings and YouTube Video Presentation(s)

For OF1939

The video you showed us in the Solar Power topic, in Post #705, appears to me to be a blatant falsehood!

In looking at the terrain chosen for the panels, I see evidence that the planners looked for land where nothing had grown for millions of years, and where no self-respecting deer or any other intelligent creature would venture.

If the surface of Mars were covered with solar panels, absolutely no one would care, except for an artist who might long to see a vista of desert where nothing has grown for millions of years.

This issue seems to be important to you, so this forum provides an opportunity for you to develop your ideas further.

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Oldfart1939

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Registered: 2016-11-26

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Re: OldFart1939 Postings and YouTube Video Presentation(s)

I only posted the video because it showed an issue with solar panels that I strongly disapprove of. Especially when a viable alternative (nuclear power--Thorium based) already exists. In Europe, where the Greens forced the EU to adopt solar and wind power, these alternative energy sources have already been shown to be unreliable. In Germany (where I recently visited for 5 weeks) there are so-called Wind Farms which are idled due to lack of enough constant winds, and there are now coal mines reopening because of the war in Ukraine preventing import of natural gas.

tahanson43206

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Registered: 2018-04-27

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Re: OldFart1939 Postings and YouTube Video Presentation(s)

For Oldfart1939 re #52

Thanks for explaining your reason for posting the video....

Please forgive my pursuing this a bit further ... I genuinely have NO idea what anyone could find objectionable about a carefully placed and well maintained solar panel.  The person who created the video may well have had a motivation that differs from yours.

As far as fission and thorium are concerned.... I don't think the issue is the materials themselves, so much as the obvious untrustworthiness of other human beings.

Human beings have  been behaving badly since before recorded times, as indicated indirectly by evidence unearthed by archaeologists.

Human beings are behaving badly today, and we'll find out about some of the misbehavior in tomorrow's news.

If human beings could be trusted with fission, we might have more acceptance of a valuable power source.

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