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That’s great, but what about the parts of the world that do not have access to sufficient hydropower resources? There aren’t many rivers left to dam. Unfortunately, coal is still the fastest growing source of energy globally.
My intro to environmental literature were Sierra Clubs book called Time and the River Flowing, and In Wildness is the Preservation of the World, which I read in my parent's living room in 1968. The former was about the wanton destruction of Glen Canyon, on the Colorado River and the projected damming of the Colorado River at the Grand Canyon. Environmentalists correctly and effectively blocked the latter atrocity.
That could well be advocated now, in the mad rush for "renewable energy", a solution in search of a problem.
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Originally Posted by sanspeur
Nope, not nuclear. I don't think nuclear is the path we should take.
Nope, not nuclear. I don't think nuclear is the path we should take.
Ok, so how do you plan to keep the lights on? We can’t use fossil fuels. We can’t use nuclear fission. What energy source should we use? What energy source will being the developing world out of poverty? What energy source will allow people in the first world to keep their first world standard of living?
Ok, so how do you plan to keep the lights on? We can’t use fossil fuels. We can’t use nuclear fission. What energy source should we use? What energy source will being the developing world out of poverty? What energy source will allow people in the first world to keep their first world standard of living?
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