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[@CikaCrni75]

They all seem to have forgotten that Germany's solar energy use is growing every year,and it is soon to become their highest source of energy.The cost is nothing compared to the alternative,and will come down eventually...

[@cyberslick18]

And you seem to have forgotten that Germany is in a national power crisis. They import more coal than another nation in the world when compared with overall population. Germany also has the highest cost per power (kilowatt) than any other modern nation. Don't talk about Germany unless you know what's actually going on there. If you are middle class or lower in Germany right now, your biggest expense is power, and it's bankrupting families across the country. Cutting nuclear power was one of the worst things Germany has done in modern history for it's people.

[@hallabalooza]

To this day, a total number of 0 people have died due to the Fukushyma power plant "catastrophe". Z E R O .

[@JokoCi]

And there is a total of 0 information in your brain... Z E R O

[@hallabalooza]

JokoCi Please illuminate me.. I'm not qite convinced on the insult part alone.

[@febthirteen5380]

There were no immediate deaths but at least six workers have exceeded lifetime legal limits for radiation and more than 300 have received significant radiation doses. future cancer deaths due to accumulated radiation exposures in the population living near Fukushima have ranged from none to "guesstimate" of 1,000

[@hallabalooza]

Feb Thirteen Then again, those are merely statistics. I think its a pretty crazy idea to base an entire energy policy on such vague and unverified numbers. Sure, nuclear energy is dangerous if not treated properly. But the advantages are simply overwhelming.

[@valgehiir]

hallabalooza true, nuke plants are dangerous, but so are solar panels. What if a panel drops on the head of some German, are they gonna freak out, and dismantle solar and wind plants? Prolly no, but thats how they reacted to Fukushima fuckdown, I mean meltdown. Everything that Japanese could fuck up in Fukushima, they did, starting from that they built a fucking thing in Japan to begin!

[@charlespirate1]

Americans just don’t get why people object to colonisation. Funny that.

[@GabrielSparkletits]

So what's wrong with thorium power? Besides the fact that it's a woman now.

[@Alitari]

On the issue of Israel, my feeling is that Israel has shown that it can take a hit without people being hurt. Iron Dome has proven itself ... and walked Israel into the exact situation that the Soviets worried the Americans would walk into if they had perfected their Star Wars program; that a strong enough shield is an imbalance, it removes the MAD concern, which makes it easy to strike out, because there are no consequences on shielded side. The current Israeli response is not proportionate. Consider ... West Wing 1:3 - Proportional response ... and ... www.flasharc.com/bor (starting at 17:38) If you are ethical and strong, and someone hits you, is it not the right response to only hit them with as much force that they hit you? 3 kids were kidnapped and killed. Hundreds of Palestinians were arrested in response. That in and of itself is not proportional; if there is a crime in America, do they round up and arrest everyone in the neighbourhood? Hamas fires off ineffective weapons that Iron Dome swats away. Now scores of Palestinians are dead as Israel bombs the Gaza Strip. Israel has the right to defend itself. It has shown that it can do so with Iron Dome. It doesn't need to strike back. And if it chooses to do so, it should only strike back as hard as it has been struck. This is the responsibility of those who have power to those who do not, lest they become tyrannical and overbearing. Consider Superman ... Superman -- "World of Cardboard" Speech ... do we respect this Superman more than the one who uses his heat vision to lobotomize the villains? dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Superman_(Justice_Lord) Which is better ... the one who is strong and uses restraint, or the one who is strong and lets loose any time they are wronged?

[@EHCBunny4real]

Solar energy is not economical for businesses, but it is for residential homes who uses less energy. If each home used solar panels instead of electricity it would put utilities out of business. Corporations do not want residents to use alternative sources of energy. They need residents to share in the cost of their production costs.

[@ScottFreeVideos]

Also it doesn't create enough energy. In order for the US to run totally off of solar we would need the suface area 3 times the size of the USA.

[@killerfrenchy]

As a very liberal engineer, I am so tired of ignorant people on my side of the aisle talking about how dangerous nuclear power is. We talk about how the Republican Party is the "Party of Stupid" like Jindal once said, but there are plenty of people on the left who deny science as well. Nuclear has risks, but what we need to do is to do research into the recycling of "spent" fuel rods. If you actually care about the science, you can look up the facts about Fukushima and about how overblown the issue is. Nuclear, if regulated properly (making sure inspections and building codes are up to snuf), is an amazing feat of modern technology that can safely provide for our ever-increasing energy needs.

[@TaylorL000]

+killerfrenchy As you said "if regulated properly." I do not trust our government, who is filled with politicians who are owned by every special interest group that exists, to regulate nuclear properly, with the interest of keeping people safe as their first priority.

[@KenrickBrown75]

+TaylorL000 Then get money out of politics.

[@lucascarlson898]

+TaylorL000 What do you mean? Nuclear power plants are already regulated so heavily that we haven't been able to build any new ones in this country over the past 40 years. The current regulations are too strict if anything. They make new construction prohibitively expensive. If we reduced regulations on nuclear power, scientists could develop safer technology.

[@clarkpalace]

America is unfortunately too corrupt to regulate nuclear properly

[@apocbible]

Bill doesn't know anything about Palestine

[@fabfashionista13]

He's always been very biased about the Israeli-Palestenian conflict...Maybe it's because he's half-jewish.

[@OfficialJab]

fabfashionista13 Check out "Bill Maher interviews Michael Scheuer on Israel" for a peephole into that. He's usually against middle-eastern meddling, unless it's Israel.

[@jjouney]

Maher kisses Israel's ass, just like the politicians he so loathes. He's a phony and not a true liberal. I enjoy his political commentary until it gets to middle east politics: His bias is disgustingly obvious

[@semitar6]

If we switched over to Thorium nuclear reactors, a lot of this nuclear debate would become mute. Thorium offers several advantages over uranium including much greater abundance on Earth, superior physical and nuclear fuel properties, and reduced nuclear waste production. It is also much harder to weaponize then uranium. So why don't we use it? Startup costs for a thorium reactor are a little more then uranium reactors... Several countries are working on thorium reactors...the U.S. should be one of them...

[@BrendanBeckett]

Being against nuclear power because of fukushima is like being against walking because someone walked into the woods and got lost

[@VfletchS]

Nuclear is the future. Has to be. If you do just a little research, you can learn for yourself that new reactor designs are extremely safe and inherently stable. People who are against nuclear power usually don't know anything about it.

[@cpob2013]

On nuclear safety, I would like to point out that both the U.S. and Russian navies have fleets of ships with mobile nuclear reactors, often pressurized and cut off from the rest of the world under miles of water, all maintained by crews that are 90% in their 20s. Not one accident in 50 years, even under pressure of war.

[@slydessertfox6267]

Nuclear is the most reliable and viable long term renewable energy source that can work on a nationwide scale for the time being. Especially once we figure out how to use nuclear fusion. Chernobyl was an example of what happens when you have an outdated nuclear reactor that ignores all safety regulations. Fukushima is an example of what happens when you put nuclear power plants on fault lines. They are exceptional circumstances that we can learn from-stringently abide by the strictest safety regulations and dont build nuclear plants on fault lines.

[@cpob2013]

Couldnt agree more with Maher on Israel. Nuclear is the best option, seeing how its reliable, efficient, clean, and while toxic waste spills or even meltdowns are worse than anything climate change could do (drought and floods are preferred over mushroom clouds), I would rather have my energy plan involve burying toxic waste in a bunker encased in concrete miles under a mountain, even if something goes wrong from time to time, than when everything goes according to plan, have co2, methane, and whatever the hell fraking uses pumped straight into the air and water.

[@lindsncal]

Huh? "and while toxic waste spills or even meltdowns are worse than anything climate change could do (drought and floods are preferred over mushroom clouds), You need to do a little more reading.

[@cpob2013]

lindsncal more extreme weather is better than nukes going off. Hurricanes dont have fallout no matter the storm surge. Here are ways around shortages like desalination, but you cannot filter toxic waste out of the water. Climate change is real and it is serious, but dont compare it to nuclear winter.

[@hivebrain]

Connor O'Brien Meltdowns aren't nuclear explosions.

[@cpob2013]

hivebrain not hiroshima, but it can explode and throw material into the air. Screw it, im pro nuke anyway. Navy is full of em and they are crewed by 20 year olds

[@ScottFreeVideos]

lindsncal There aren't any better alternatives. Wind and solar don't produce enough energy to be viable (example: the USA would need solar panels 3x the surface area of the USA itself to meet our energy needs). I'm on board for solar and wind if they could produce enough energy but it's not even close. Also, they can recycle nuclear waste into new nuclear fuel but the process has been made illegal as it is the same process in making nuclear weapon grade material. Compare the rare melt downs to the ones that haven't (ex France). It's like saying the occasional airline crashes so it isn't safe to fly. Flying was much more dangerous in the past than it is now because we've learned from our mistakes which we're also doing with nuclear energy.

[@yamilmarchand]

Is it me, or is Bill always defending the Jews? LOL

[@paulmertens5522]

Well, he is a jew.

[@Stevesrssrssrs]

***** His Mother is Jewish, period! He is completely anti-religion, so you might want to find a different reason there, buddy.

[@sabin97]

Stevesrssrssrs "His Mother is Jewish" and that makes him a jew.

[@Stevesrssrssrs]

sabin97 First, that doesn't matter when he was raised Catholic!!! Second, maybe you didn't hear me. HE'S DEEPLY FUCKING ANTI-RELIGION!!! It doesn't matter what his "race" is, or that he's a half-Jew because his Mother was Jewish. I can promise you that isn't the reason. It's because Israel has Western values and ideals!!

[@paulmertens5522]

Being a Jew doesn't say anything about your religion; it only says something about your race. I still think being a jew would be an obvious reason to defend other jews.

[@usu15550]

Unfortunately Reihan Salam has no clue what he is talking about (regarding energy and CO2 emissions) - he claims that the US has decarbonized its economy faster than Europe - WRONG and misleading. The EU average is still about 40% lower than the US CO2 per capita, and where the US CO2 shrunk because of the collapse of the economy. It is also misleading to claim the US had reduced its CO2 emissions more than Europe - take for example Switzerland - it has a CO2 per capita emission of about 5.1 metric tons while the US has about 18.5 metric tons - if you include the exported and unmeassured CO2 of the US than they would have more 20 tons or 4 times the CO2 of Switzerland. It is clear that it is easier for a nation to cut 1 metric ton when you are on a level of 20 tons (which equals 5%) as when you are on a level of 5 tons (which equals a reduction of 20%). Fracking is not an option since 50% of all wells leak within the first 30 years and it releases a huge amount of methane as well as it destroys water tables of millions. Nuclear is no option either - does he want to have a nuclear waste storage in his back yard? Does he know about the cancer rates in uranium mines? Most likely not!

[@ryanfoley123]

We don't need to stomach birth defects, chemical spills and higher disease risks in order to have clean energy, and anybody who says we do is looking out for business, not people. That guy who looks like the villain in a Star Trek episode is a snake in the grass.

[@bethechange52]

The gentleman from Slate is a jerk! He comes across like he knows everything and that all he says is true. Mamma mia!

[@jgodin312]

People have to realize there are huge, vocal communities of Jews out there who think like Ron Suskind, not Netanyahu.

[@andiamoci22]

but Germany saves much more energy per household than the US so they dont spend as much as it seems

[@15772397]

Yeah, but the insane costs of energy in places that went to all green energy are a bit prohibitive. Germany's energy costs are something like double the US costs (or more, cant remember). OTOH, it is important to clean up our environment, whether you believe in global warming or not, who wants to live in a land choked with pollution. IS wind and solar the only answer, well no. For some reason people dont mention the other green options, Tidal power generators (in theory sure) or hydro (which, ok is mostly capped). I am jsut saying, we should approach this with many sources, not just one. Oh, btw the plumes from most coal power plants have more radioactive content than the majority of nuke plants release other than the leftover waste. We should totally dump that waste on Mars :)

[@15772397]

Are* Wind and Solar the only answers.** Whatever.

[@andiamoci22]

bill maher has a blind spot when it comes to Israel..

[@andiamoci22]

look at Germany -- this year they surpassed 50% of energy from alternative energy... It can be done if you get the oil companies out of the lobbies.

[@hai-hotranphotography1169]

Bill. You're almost always right about most issue, except this one. "Change the way you look at things. The things you look at will be changed."

[@420gma]

Energy from thorium is the way to go !

[@mrwebb3000]

Let em fight! Talking gets you no where, when dealing with Muslim extremists. The jews already tried to compromised and they basically told them fuck you, somebody's gotta go or the fighting will just continue for thousands of more years. As long as they give them hope of having the land back the fighting will continue. Israel just has to take it all in order for this to end! When you show power and dominance its human nature to respect it!

[@gilanin]

There are even some people who say child slaughter of palestinians is justified because they believe in what their parents believe, and have been indoctrinated so "they deserve it". But can you blame them even if it is true? What can you say about a catholic child, christian child, muslim child, etc.? Isn't it the same? Haven't they been indoctrinated to believe what their parents do too? Should catholic kids be slaughtered because of their beliefs, in a conflict against an opposing religious party?

[@zenith0707]

Defending Israel???? Extremely disappointed in Bill Maher, a man that I thought stood up for injustice in the world.

[@KillgoreTrout43]

OK, what do we do with all the highly radioactive spent fuel rods. That's the big problem with nuclear power. Those rods, even considered "spent," are still dangerously radioactive and will remain so for hundreds of years. What do we do with all that dangerous material?

[@chrisjanotta8403]

David Fahey Perhaps the same place that fatigued batteries go. Nuclear power does not produce very much volume or nuclear waste anyways. Especially relative to uninhabited areas it can be stored. Ontario could run nuclear for 10 years and yield less train crate worth of waste. Furthermore nuclear will become more sophisticated over the next 30 years as robotics advance and assist in nuclear engineering. Nuclear engineering is extremely difficult to optimize when a meter thick concrete wall must always separate observers from nuclear material. The only thing the average person can tell you about nuclear are the names of the disasters. Informed people are supportive. Nuclear has been great to Canada and the US. It is a necessary stepping stone while energy storage and solar advance.

[@KillgoreTrout43]

chris, those spent fuel rods still contain a lot of radioactivity. Would you want them stored in your hometown?

[@sebastianr9101]

+David Fahey What do you think that radioactive material is? It's not the barium or krypton produced by split Uranium-235, these things aren't radioactive for long periods of time. The "spent" nuclear fuel rods are radioactive because they contain plutonium 239, which is perfectly fissile. We have reactors now that use plutonium instead of uranium in fast reactions, all we would have to do is reprocess the plutonium out of these rods and you'll be left with 1) nuclear fuel and 2) non radioactive material. That's not even taking into the possibility of a traveling wave reactor, which takes the concept of a super-dense local power source to the very limit and simply doesn't produce radioactive waste in the first place. The misinformation being spread about this is enough to make me want to blow my brains out.

[@TheFerg714]

Jesus fucking Christ how many times is he going to say fundamentally?!?

[@ShashankRaina992]

INDIA HAS MADE A THORIUM REACTOR. THORIUM IS MUCH SAFER A NUCLEAR POWER SOURCE, SO IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT FUKUSHIMA........ NUCLEAR CAN STILL BE HELPFUL. JUST REPLACE URANIUM WITH THORIUM! HOPE FOR THE BEST.

[@TetsuoNL]

Energy price is twice as much in Germany... mmmm maby. But Germany also has the lowest unemployed rate in Europe. Probably the best economic country in the EU at the moment.

[@americanevangelisticassoci880]

2 Samuel 7:10 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first.

[@Toxinomist]

Let's say that it is safe. The problem is over time. What to do with the waists. This is the real issue. The plants are pratically dead zones for ever and are contaminating the surrounding with leaks and sotrages.

[@mandeepthebest]

I agree with sustainable sources but these sources are not efficient enough for big cities. They need more research. Nuclear can be the best if they are monitored perfectly. I am chem Engg and am for nuclear energy.

[@charlesnearing6850]

We need nuclear albeit thorium power plants . Solar and wind are environmentally destructive, yes carbon neutral, but you need a lot of land to host this type of power generation.

[@jules2c]

290 Israelis died in road incidents in 2012, far more lethal than "insurgents".

[@wratched]

"Each one got worse" Er, no. Fukashima was nowhere near as bad as Chernobyl. Not even close.

[@Mister006]

Ambri Mg Sb molten salt battery to supply energy in the off-cycle for solar & wind generation.

[@lukemilton1964]

Love watching Real Time!!!!

[@Myfanwy204]

***** You might want to ask yourself who is the real fool.

[@redlightmax]

7:06 Hey buddy, how about letting someone else speak? She is a congresswoman, you know.

[@clarkpalace]

Can u imagine how they would b shocked at what alt facts are. Oct 2022

[@SuperTruthful]

Palestinians didn't have to go to another arab country when they have a country.

[@annade6673]

maher is such a bright guy, what a suprise on his view on israel, so one sighted. i'm disapointed

[@jacobhiller6731]

What an ignorant take on energy. Wind and solar need not be brushed off. Put some effort into development and they will save us.

[@hellohithereyep8530]

+Jacob Hiller He didn't say that at all. He said we need natural gas and nuclear power as transitional energies before renewable energy.

[@paulmertens5522]

As for the energy debate; modern nuclear power is safe; and there's great options for solar and wind (Germany is running the better part of the country on renewables as we speak); both are absolutely great options and there's no reason to invest any further in any form of fossil fuel.

[@yourmomsajedi117]

Just a question.what do we do with all the nuclear waste?

[@JuanDiaz-bi1mm]

Ahh bill maher and religion go together like cheese and cake

[@andrewfrisch7002]

So sad that Hanna was replaced by One Term Tenney.

[@MrNintoku]

4:42 He's actually got a strong point here. Carbon Dioxide has a Global Warming Potential (100-year) of 1 whereas Methane is a value of 21. So if by the process of fracting we emit methane of a magnitude that it is 21 times less the amount of carbon dioxide we are still doing the amount of damage as all that carbon dioxide.

[@headrockbeats]

Ron Suskind's right in that first segment. We used to have the moral high-ground, but after 1967 we got so arrogant that we've been squandering it like crazy - and we're going to pay for it bigtime :(

[@Tycandrias]

Thorium energy... problem solved

[@eliaschevette]

Simple build a city of a more that an million that functions with solar and wind only and nobody will question solar and wind ever again.

[@leddsaliva]

Working on it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masdar_City

[@carsonpark4742]

lets discount the most powerful energy source we're aware of cause our first gen plants have broken 3 times... really?...

[@russelljackson2668]

bill mayer and howard stern intervie

[@NeilBlanchard]

Land based wind energy is THE cheapest way to make electricity. Right now. And solar PV is close behind, as the cost is dropping quickly.

[@hellohithereyep8530]

+Neil Blanchard Why is it so cheap? The government subsidizes it heavily. Do you know what form of energy is least subsidized? Fossil fuels.

[@NeilBlanchard]

Hydro was massively expensive to build, and it has costs that are not reflected in the electricity. Fossil fuels are also extremely high cost because of pollution and climate change. Coal causes immense problems of mercury poisoning, acid rain, fly ash, mountaintop removal, etc. Building turbines now is much less expensive than ANY other way to make electricity.

[@callamastia]

this is still relevant wow

[@aaronab3]

Gotta love Bill Maher

[@Handiman544]

"We have to at least agree on the facts...." Who's facts did you have in mind???

[@xsilentbulletsx]

i love right at the end when she says we have to move forward wanting whats best for america and that loser is shaking his head.

[@MilesofSummer]

Did Bill dye his hair black ?

[@rafasaintski758]

come on boston Celtics!

[@MOHAMMEDRUSH]

Since 2000 (when human rights organizations like B'Tselem בצלם began collecting data), Israeli forces have killed nearly 6,900 Palestinians, including 1,523 Palestinian children, and injured nearly 60,000. Over 8,000 Palestinian children have been abducted and detained without access to basic legal rights. There is not a single Palestinian family that hasn't been affected by Israel's occupation. The Israeli military occupation began 22 years before the first suicide bombing occurred, and 34 years before Hamas fired a single rocket into Israel, yet Palestinians are constantly being blamed as the aggressors in U.S. media. It seems that no matter how many lives Israel takes, no matter how many children it kidnaps, no matter how many houses it destroys, and no matter how much land it steals, if Palestinians respond in any way, shape or form, they are portrayed as terrorists and Israel is the victim. Americans need to know the facts. We give Israel over $3 billion dollars per year in military aid, and most Americans would be appalled if they knew what their tax dollars were paying for.

[@torskforce]

go Reihan!

[@jonultime]

Reihan Salam should be our new energy czar

[@NeilBlanchard]

benjamiy831 He is not an expert, and he vastly underestimates what renewable energy can be. France is abandoning nuclear energy. And Germany is still increasing the renewable energy faster than they are building new coal.

[@hellohithereyep8530]

+Neil Blanchard The French have been struggling to cut down on nuclear energy.

[@russelljackson2668]

howard stern

[@russelljackson2668]

howard stern and bill waher

[@TheSunnickey]

Love that man...

[@jorgeandrews4227]

zing zang yang

[@kimbarron9484]

Love Bill. Couldn't be more disappointed at his blind, unquestioning allegiance to Israel. smdh.

[@johnmastroligulano7401]

Bill please don't say your guest knows so much about the power industry especially when he is just a shill your not build a consensus your losing your audience & without that Bill what are you going to do?