AGW post 111, 3.8.19

Language is all important.  Therefore, if you wish to influence the discussion, then control the use of language.  After all, isn't that what the lefties do?

So-called conservatives all too often use the words that the left invents, like "renewables".  Another example ( this is just one of many ) is the use of this word in reference to so-called "green" energy policies.

Renewables mean things like solar and wind, or maybe biomass as well.  However, there is no such thing as renewables, as all good things come to an end at some point.  The sun will use up its hydrogen fuel far off in the future.  It may be a few billion years, but it will run out of fuel the same way that "artificial" energy sources do.  Therefore, any energy coming from the sun is not technically "renewable".  It just gets used up at a slower pace.  Nuclear energy gets used up slowly, so why not use that?  But it is not renewable, they'll say.

Geothermal is also called renewable, but it is based upon volcanic activity, which in turn is based upon radioactivity deep within the Earth.  It is no more "renewable" than the sun, no more renewable than artificial energy derived from nuclear power.

So, let's clean up this language a bit.  What the greenies are really talking about is man made energy sources based upon technology, versus non technology sources.

The left controls the discussion when they use the term "renewable", so why should the so-called conservatives cede that ground to them?  But they do.  That is why they lose.