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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-05 04:57 PM
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2. Let's see, let's compare India's smallest nuclear plant to world solar
capacity, even as measured in the phony "mega watts" that anti-environmental anti-nuclear twits use when misrepresenting what they can do about global climate change.

Here is the 97 "megawatts" installed world wide in solar fantasy land, operating at 12% capacity representing the 50 biggest (fraudulently rated) solar stations on earth:

http://www.pvresources.com/en/top50pv.php

Here is the tiny nuclear plant in India, the plant at Tarapur, which has two 160 MWe boiling water reactors operating at 99% of rating capacity, 24 hours a day, 365.25 days a year.

Each of these tiny reactors produces 6 times the total output of the earth's supply of solar PV plants, and this after 40 years of bad, bad, bad scary evil gee I'm paranoid press about the nuclear industry from scientific illiterates and 40 years of solar will save the day, solar is sexy, "we promise that solar power will be cheap some day" bullshit fantasy hype.

Of course the Indians live close to Bangladesh, and unlike Greenpeace drunks and illiterates, they know about poverty.

If I were trying to defend a failed industry like the solar PV industry, that worldwide can't even produce as much as the smallest nuclear plant in a third world country, I'd probably get drunk and roll around on the floor giggling insipidly too. What the fuck, it certainly wouldn't effect the credibility of a vapid argument.

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