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David Eggleston's avatar

Any carbon-free strategy that doesn’t include nuclear isn’t serious and is only useful for political pandering.

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Heime Israel's avatar

Carbon is making us dependent on dictators...

hummmm...

As for all these "renewables" -- who makes them? And, how exactly are they made?

In order to use solar, one needs solar panels. Who makes them? What are the materials needed to assemble, maintain and then dispose of them? Is that "harder" on the environment? (sorry, I know that I shouldn't be asking these questions..)

Let's be honest, this is not a serious discussion about energy independence or the environment. The USA was energy independent while the Orange Man was running things.

This is all about getting rid of carbon and leveraging any and all reasons for doing so. There has been virtually ZERO discussion about what the environmental impact will be of moving away from carbon.

I will submit that an emotionally-driven policy to ditch carbon usage at any price will do way more environmental damage than maintaining carbon usage.

But, we're not allowed to have that discussion because such a question can't attract "grant" money...

It's all about the "Benjamin's"

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