...toxic and nonrenewable substances on which it depends, the worst of which is the dangerous fossil fuel natural gas which is a required redundant infrastructure to address the case of the wind not blowing when the sun isn't shining.

They are failures since they have absorbed half a century of head in the sand, whistling in the dark fantasies involving extrapolation of small scale data to far more vast scales.

We just sunk trillions of bucks into wind and solar in just ten years with the result that the accumulation of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary waste dump, its atmosphere, is increasing, not decreasing.

Nuclear energy is not perfect, and it is not without risk. It is, however, more reliable, better proved on a scale of tens of exajoules per year, and it does not depend on access to dangerous natural gas.

It also has been well established that nuclear infrastructure can reliably function, without requiring redundancy for periods of at least half a century, thus meaning that construction of that infrastructure is a gift to future generations, not a requirement to get of new electronic waste in 10 to 20 years, as is the case with the solar garbage that non-scientists know very little about.

A lazy google but a pseudogreenie with a poor education - I say "pseudo" since a person actually attached to the health of the planet as opposed to mindless decades old dogma - does not negate the thousands of scientific publications dedicated to the study of critical elements in the periodic table. One of these is indium. There is an international, broad ranged discussion of this element, primarily in connection with cell phones, but also for other products. In fact, there are over 1500 publications in the scientific literature in 2017 alone this far. Maybe all of the authors of these papers could be convinced to stop publishing them by some hand waving blogger sending them a stupid link to the USGS website, I don't know. I don't think that's the case, but I don't know.

I note that the refining on indium is energy intensive, since it's generally a minor impurity in zinc ores.

The solar industry doesn't produce even two of the 570 exajoules of energy that humanity generates and consumes each year. People called "scientists," as opposed to airheads defining themselves as "greens," are concerned about the supply of indium. If a critical material exists that may shut or slow an industry or make its prices prohibitive if it is depleted, it is not, by definition, "renewable." In order for solar to produce half of the current energy demand - this with billions of people living in dire poverty - it would need to produce 285 exajoules of energy each year.

This hasn't happened; it isn't happening; and it won't happen.

As I know very well haven seen the abuse of language connected with energy both right and left, where words like "dangerous" and "safe" and "renewable" are thrown around like chants disconnected with any rational thoughts, there's no way to get past this state of affairs.

The people calling themselves "greens" in my view are generally extremely ignorant people, extremely ignorant.

They seem to not understand that the recovery of lower grades of materials increases both cost and environmental impact. The clearest example of this is the existence of the oil sands and gas fracking industries, both of which exist because the solar and wind fantasy, now measured in half a century of grotesque and increasingly delusional rhetoric are abysmal failures.

I have not attempted here to utilize any sarcasm to demonstrate a weak wit.

I'm just calling the tragedy as I see it.

At the Mauna Loa carbon dioxide observatory the reading published this morning was 408.07 ppm. That says all you need to know about how wonderful solar and wind have been and are.

Have a nice weekend.

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https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/indium/mcs-2018-indiu.pdf