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oldsoftie

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7. "Short term" is thinking current tech can replace gas, coal & nuclear.
Tue Mar 21, 2023, 09:39 AM
Mar 2023

Continuing to put all our eggs in the wind/solar basket is folly. And it makes us even MORE tied to Chinese blackmail; since THEY are tying up the biggest resources for all those panels & windmills. Not to mention, they & India are continuing to open more coal plants, which means whatever we do only helps a little. Add to that, all the pollution Russia is adding with their endless war.

And I dont know why you'd think we'd suddenly run out of professionals to run a nuclear plant. If that happens, we've also run out of professionals to run 1/2 the industry in the US

New technology is invented all the time. Hopefully SOMEONE will come up with something, but we dont know when that will be. TODAY, there is NO way to replace our daily power generation from nuclear, coal & gas with anything we currently have available.

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