President Neelix threatens to pull California wildfire money

[Antiboyscout]

Well, I'm not an engineer, so this is just gibberish to me. I do know antiboyscout's arguments were laughable, though. Really wish I could have found that Lewis Black segment where he roasted talking points just like his in "Red, White and Screwed." Solar energy can't work because the sun goes down at night. Next you'll say wind can't work because sometimes the wind doesn't blow. Or water can't work because some places on Earth don't have water. It seems simplistic. Why the heck is he even anti boy scout anyway? I'm more anti Chuck Norris than anti boy scout.

Fluctuations in power output by renewables need to be filled in by base load. The bigger the fluctuations the more base load is required. The sun not shining and the wind not blowing are pretty big fluctuations in power output. When did I say anything about water? I love dams. It's environmentalists that don't.

[Antiboyscout]

It really isn't. Nuclear power can't be adjusted well. It produces X MWs, and that's the end of that. Solar and Wind (not Hydro, Hydro works like Nuclear), a variable amount of energy, relying on the rest of the grid to provide power in leaner times. Unless we find big freakin' batteries or something, Solar and Wind are going to rely on natural gas or coal to pick up the slack, because having Solar/Wind add gravy on top of nuclear is just daft.

Get hydro or natural gas when you can, but nuclear is much better than coal.

Also hydro is flexible. Hydro plants have multiple turbines that can be turned on and off to vary power output.

[TGLS]

Also hydro is flexible. Hydro plants have multiple turbines that can be turned on and off to vary power output.

Well, that's fair, but once you build a dam there's little reason not to run it at capacity, unless you're in a drought or something.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

So, apparently they are all out of the kind of breathing masks you use for painting and stuff, not to speak of the fitted filtering masks. So far they've identified forty-something people by remains, and the rescue workers are being augmented with forensic anthropologists.

[Admiral X]

Has to be one of the worst ways to die.