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Miguelito Loveless

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8. Except for the fact that it is still decades away

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 08:38 AM

Jul 2020

just like it has been for the last 60 years.

It is hideously expensive, uses a lot of land, and still required centralized grids.

I am not saying give up on it, but right now we have the tech to de-carbonize the grid. Today. Not 10-50 years from now. Given the dire consequences of global warming, the money being spent on this could be reducing CO2 now. Every house converted takes about 10,000lbs of CO2 out of the atmosphere now. More when you scale up to solar/wind farms.

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