Clean up, aisle 5! Noah Smith melts down and starts citing HIMSELF over and over again in heated debate about solar versus nuclear

Nobody likes to be wrong on Twitter. Ok, that’s not entirely true, there are annoying people who enjoy being wrong just to annoy others … but most people like to come across as at least knowing what they’re talking about. For example, Noah Smith really really really likes solar and wind technologies:

People who instinctively and relentlessly look for reasons to oppose solar and wind are simply technophobes. They are afraid of change, afraid of weird scary new technologies that make their world look different. In 1910 they'd have been scared of cars.

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) August 14, 2022

We won’t bore you with the entire thread.

You’re welcome.

It’s obvious from the first tweet that it didn’t get any better … comparing people who know solar and wind won’t produce enough energy to power this country to people who were afraid of cars? REALLY? People were more than happy to explain to Noah why he was not only wrong but embarrassingly wrong.

I didn’t know that Sunday was joke day. Solar and wind are not the panacea promised. They are like the cars you reference. A lauded technology that reveals it ugly side in due time. pic.twitter.com/vWBtnxYTRT

— The Doctor (@TennantRob) August 14, 2022

Don’t you need fossil fuels for solar and wind? Ahem.

LOL! You are the Luddite (that’s the word your inarticulate brain failed to find). Production & disposal of wind & solar are environmentally dirty, as is production/disposal of batteries. Enough wind power to make a difference in energy would literally modify the climate… badly.

— WitCoHE 🇺🇸 (@E__Strobel) August 15, 2022

BUT IT SOUNDS SO PRETTY AND NICE AND STUFF. Wind, sun … Noah would like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony.

The technologies that humanity uses to power our next energy transition will be determined by the cold hard facts of costs and feasibility, NOT by local politics.

And all over the globe, companies and countries are switching to solar.https://t.co/Yu2K6MKitS

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) August 15, 2022

Maybe he thinks if he posts it enough people will believe him?

So far, that hasn’t been the case. Just sayin’.

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