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An enjoyable podcast, but not one likely to convince the opposition. Mr. Rogers is like a lot of engineers I know, intelligent, informed, but not very articulate in their speech. He may well be far better in the written media. I do want to listen again to Dr. Happer. Having said that, Mr. Rogers points were very well taken. The costs of wind and solar energy are far greater than projected, The visual pollution of a wind farm, not to mention the damage to bird populations, is an additional factor. Solar panels are very expensive, and in areas like the Pacific Northwest where I live, of very limited value. Mr. Rogers’ mention of the cost of batteries to store those energies is a factor I have never before heard mentioned, but I do know that the replacement batteries for a Prius or other electric car are almost as much as the cost of the vehicle itself. That is a pretty good way of judging what a far larger storage cell would be. The other argument he made about the motivation to conform, specifically making climate science the “in thing” was also new to me, but in retrospect totally obvious. There is no question that politicians on the left are using this latest looming catastrophe as a meme. Booker, Harris, AOC, et al. are opportunist with little ethical sense, and egos and ambitions far in excess of any natural talent for governance.
Well, off to listen to Dr. Happer. Thank you, Dave, for another enjoyable podcast.
I believe critics would say that oil and gas, and possibly coal are also subsidized one way or another. I’d like to see more of a comparison there, or just find out if the idea that oil and gas are heavily subsidized is a bunch of bull.
Disposal of car batteries is a problem. They contact lots of nasty chemicals. I don’t know how easy it will be to recycle most or all of their ingredients.