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This is an equation, familiar to nuclear engineers which in the trivial case, refers to radioactive decay series wherein the amount at which an entity is destroyed dN/dt is proportional to the amount of the entity that exists, N. In this trivial case the integration is very simple and gives a simple exponential. Now if an entity is formed at the same time it's created, it's a little more complex, and what develops is a steady state, an equilibrium, where something is being destroyed at the rate at which it (can) form.

Now if someone wants to tell me that the climate issue is fully solved and addressed, many of us have a word for it here at DU. It's called "denial."

Some of us hold denial in contempt, noting that the weather is increasingly destabilized, among other things.

Now for the Bateman application to the use of solar cells, besides factors like the Stabler Wronski effect and other degradation mechanisms such as the burnout of inverters and other junk, there's the factor that all the solar bullshit has done nothing to address the collapse of the planetary atmosphere, resulting in, again, to repeat, again and again and again, destabilized weather

From Inside Climate News:




Virgin Group Company BMR Energy Announces Plans to Rebuild St. Thomas Solar Farm



Renew Economy:



Solar groups deny damage, pollution claims after Danas

(There's reference to denial again.)



Why the solar revolution is in grave danger—and how it can be saved



We could go on quite some time with these as opposed to all the bizarre - at least I find it bizarre - pictures of intact solar industrial parks covering obscenely large tracts of land to provide energy for a few hours per day, while relying on fossil fuels the rest of the time.

So out with it?

Are we really saved by this trillion dollar solar "miracle" or is the fucking atmosphere's collapse still going on with no demonstrable effect?

In my tenure here, beginning in November of 2002, while listening to, and once being delusional enough to believe in this forever solar "miracle," the increase in the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste has been 58.47 ppm as of this morning. The rise has never stopped, and the rate of the rise is increasing, from 18.00 ppm/10 years to 25.85 ppm/10 years as of this morning.

Everything's just fine? Really?

Instead of posting graphs, I would recommend that person posting them be able to understand what they mean, but that's just me.

The fucking graphs have not done a fucking thing to put out the fires.

By the way:

I have never met a denialist antinuke able to distinguish the difference between a unit of (peak, in the solar and wind case) power, the Watt, and the Joule

That explains an awful lot about the inability to grasp what graphics mean.

If anyone is confidently posting graphics in which unreliable systems requiring redundancy is measured in Watts, one can understand how fucking easy it is to lapse into climate denial.

JFC.