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NeoGreen

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2. For my part, I would really be interested in seeing...

Reply to NoMoreRepugs (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 6, 2017, 09:43 AM

Nov 2017

...how many jobs have been lost in the manufacture and use of the nuclear powered mining equipment out there which is used to support the nuclear power industry. Because as everyone has been unfailingly informed on how absolutely perfect and clean nuclear power is and how completely untainted it is by dangerous™ coal, oil and natural gas, in contrast to any other energy technology that might be even slightly dependent upon dangerous™ coal, oil and natural gas and therefore are just as bad if not the worst...evil...ever.

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Renewable energy is creating US jobs twice as fast as any other industry [View all] NeoGreen Nov 2017 OP

Good to see coal and oil driving new job creation... NoMoreRepugs Nov 2017 #1

For my part, I would really be interested in seeing... NeoGreen Nov 2017 #2

To be fair, working on rooftops in the sun can be dangerous. hunter Nov 2017 #3

Is that just an incrased risk for solar panal installers... NeoGreen Nov 2017 #4

Solar is dependent on fossil fuels too. hunter Nov 2017 #5

Never made the claim that renewable energy is not... NeoGreen Nov 2017 #6

Who told you "coal is on its way out?" NNadir Nov 2017 #16

On a separate note... NeoGreen Nov 2017 #7

A very dramatic event was the Huronian glaciation, a little over 2 billion years ago. hunter Nov 2017 #8

All very interesting but... NeoGreen Nov 2017 #9

In the human experience I suspect the evolutionary innovation was storytelling. hunter Nov 2017 #10

Sooo... NeoGreen Nov 2017 #11

There's always someone "before." hunter Nov 2017 #12

Bravo Lachrymologist Nov 2017 #14

Renewable Energy Capture and Storage Requires Coal, Oil and Natural Gas Lachrymologist Nov 2017 #13

Noted. NoMoreRepugs Nov 2017 #15

The coal industry ought to have been killed a long time ago. hunter Nov 2017 #17