re: Coal company sues HBO's John Oliver for defamation

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Oliver sounds like an asswipe making fun of appearance, figures that is you speed

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All he did was day he looked like a geriatric Dr Evil.



He's pretty spot on with that analogy.

Thats like saying, you know I really like this new steel thing, but we should keep using stone knives. They're duller and chip easily but damnit if there aren't rocks everywhere.

It's horrendous for the environments (both natural and human) they're both mined and consumed in and wildly inefficient. They destroy the communities they pull from and it's for a bizarre form of Stockholm syndrome.

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Thats like saying, you know I really like this new steel thing, but we should keep using stone knives. They're duller and chip easily but damnit if there aren't rocks everywhere.

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He actually advocates for vastly inferior technology. Fights progress of any type, this guy. He has to be the only person in the San Francisco Bay area who uses dial up. It's like advocating for continuing to drag you shite everywhere on a sled than invest in the wheel.

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I'm pretty sure Dale has never heard of it.

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Oh yooou.

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Thats like saying, you know this fossil fuels and nuclear stuff works really well, but we should be using the sun and the wind. They're unpredictable and inefficient, but damn it if there aren't sun and wind everywhere.

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Fossil fuels are finite. Solar and wind aren't. We're going to need to greatly accelerate these (solar particularly) if we're going to make it in the future. If we can harness 1% of solar energy, then it would power our entire civilization. So yeah, how about we keep investing in that which gets more efficient every year, and start weaning ourselves off of coal and oil that actually frick up the planet and our geopolitical sphere.

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Oh yooou.

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Well, we're providing you links to watch stuff, but you keep on heavily implying to us you're too retarded to click on a fricking link provided to you. You can ask Google, but you continue to prove you're too stupid to do it.

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Fossil fuels are finite. Solar and wind aren't.

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Finite on what time scale? Solar and wind are inefficient boondoggles that have been preaching the "breakthrough" to being workable is "just right around the corner" for the last 50 years.
It's bullshite. Their only practicable application is in the single homestead or small compound setting. Them replacing fossil fuels for mass energy production is a joke.

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Thats like saying, you know this fossil fuels and nuclear stuff works really well, but we should be using the sun and the wind. They're unpredictable and inefficient, but damn it if there aren't sun and wind everywhere.

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The difference is we have only just begun to explore solar. It takes awhile to get the infrastructure in place to efficiently harvest energy. Coal has had the time to do that but it's still losing out to natural gas.

Solar hasn't had the time that coal and oil have had to put the infrastructure in place. Ironically it is plants' ability to harness solar power that allows us to have fossil fuels.

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Finite on what time scale?

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A low enough one where we need to start investing in alternate energies. Like 200 years or so, but if we keep burning them at this rate, then less.

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Solar and wind are inefficient boondoggles that have been preaching the "breakthrough" to being workable is "just right around the corner" for the last 50 years.
It's bullshite. Their only practicable application is in the single homestead of small compound setting. Them replacing fossil fuels for mass energy production is a joke.

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Let's just keep burning coal and oil with no change, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States get richer, more finances to terrorism, global temperature spiking, a refugee crisis in Southern Asia and Africa on the likes of what has never been seen, and let's just see how that works out for us.

Instead we could be building assloads of solar panels throughout the Sahara (you know a place that has almost no life and gets shitloads of sunlight) and other deserts like Nevada, reduce our carbon footprint, starve off terrorist funding by turning oil into nothing more useful than lube, and be a spacefaring species (which solar is the ONLY source of power for that).

But hey, frick progress, right?

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That bromide has been peddled for the last half century. "It's right around the corner".

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Bromide doesn't have the ridiculous amounts of benefits to us as a species that solar does. We're barely into solar. As I said, getting 1% is all that's needed to make us an energy secure species. Let's say you're right: why not invest in something that we know we can harness some of already, but if we get 1% of it, then we're totally energy independent and we stop fricking the planet up with carbon emissions? It's insurance policy at the worst.

But no, you want to invest in an industry that is on the decline regardless, and another which has gone on to frick up the world with state funded terrorism. Great plan. Let's keep those.