Thanks Pruner, comments like that actually mean a lot. I don't ever expect to argue someone into the Kingdom, but in this world where so many self-professed Christians do so much to give God a bad name, it's nice to hear someone indicate that I'm not joining their ranks.
That's why I like you. You have your beliefs and stick to them, but you have reasoning. I can tell that you have thought about this. I don't agree with your ideas because I have also thought about things a lot and have come to different conclusions. But, we are both decent people with different ideas. I can appreciate your thoughts because you have actually gone through the process of actually thinking about them rather than just spouting off some dogma. Cheers sir.
Trick question. If you and @SlyPokerDog are so for nuclear energy then why are you against solar!? The sun is the largest nuclear reactor in our solar system! At present we utilize 1 billionth of a millionth of its daily energy output. Ain't no conservative or libertarian gonna be able to convince me the most powerful nuclear reactor cannot power our entire planet. Get. The. Fuck. Outta. Here. With. That Bullshit. Humans are smart! Figured that shit out before we kill ourselves! And while you're complaining about not having enough lithium, we don't have enough oil and coal either! We don't have enough uranium either!! And that's shit kills us... You're not making sense.
Fair enough. I think it's funny that God is so worried about what we do in our bedrooms but doesn't really seem to be focused on the real atrocities that are happening and the world. The book was written by men. Fallible men and could not explain their surroundings by using their own five senses. So since they could not explain it they created omnipotence to explain it for them. They used fear of death and the unknowing of what happens afterward to control. See, I was raised Baptist Christian since birth. I'm went to church 3 times a week. I went to Sunday school every Sunday and vacation bible school every summer. I was on the Usher Board and in the junior choir. I had to go to every church function. That was me in the front of the entire church of about 250+ winning Bible drills. I've read the Bible cover to cover two times. This inundation has created a disdain for Christianity in my adult life. Because when reading the Bible I was taken aback by the many atrocities and contradictions in it. I am now agnostic (because atheists are assholes. They don't know that there is not a god like they claim) because the fact of the matter is, nobody really knows how we got here. People can use a book to try to explain what humans could not comprehend thousands of years ago, but that's not something I would do. But people can believe what they want. And when you reside in a country that has the freedom to practice those different faiths, those belief systems should be respected. I applaud the fact that you would not attempt to insert your belief system into laws that govern those who don't believe. That in itself is tolerance.
We have enormous amounts of coal. http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Energy.html Nuclear works at night. The sun doesn't shine at night. The more solar is put up, it becomes less a % of all the energy we use. Think about that. If we want plentiful and clean energy, nuclear is the way to go. If we can harness fusion, that's even better. There are 450 nuclear reactors in 30 nations. It took a natural event equivalent to a meteor strike for one to go bad.
So let's continue to destroy our planet by strip mining and Mountain Top removal as well as polluting our environment with fossil fuels that kill us all in the name of what? Our children. Sorry Denny I call bullshit still. And now since we got a fat pile of butterscotch pudding in the White House, we'll be destroying our environment even more in the next four years.
See that's a straw man argument. Where did I say we should strip mine mountain tops, blah blah blah? That has nothing to do with nuclear energy.
I'm for solar. Denny's lithium argument is silly. Battery tech is rapidly evolving. Fusion is the future. Many countries investing heavily in it. It appears we'll be cutting our research in it. Because we discovered clean coal.
There are inherent risks in using coal ( look at how dirty China's air is because of it) and nuclear energy (chernobyl, three Mike island) with solar power there is little to no risk, and it is renewable. In 50 to 100 years we are going to be out of oil, and coal will will only last so long as well...why not invest in alternative energy sources with low risk.
