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hunter

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8. Nuclear power is the only energy source that can replace fossil fuels entirely...
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 08:56 AM
Oct 2021

... especially coal and natural gas.

Renewable energy experiments in places like California, Germany, and Denmark have failed. They've only increased our long term dependence on natural gas.

There's enough natural gas in the ground to destroy the natural environment as we know it. It is best we leave it in the ground.

Solar and wind power won't save the world because none of these renewable energy schemes are economically viable without natural gas backup power.

As the world population approaches eight billion people we've become dependent on high density energy sources for food and shelter.

If we continue to burn fossil fuels for this energy billions of people will suffer and die as wide regions of the earth become uninhabitable because of rising seas, droughts, floods, and extreme weather events.

Natural gas is the most dangerous fuel imaginable, largely because most people seem to think it is "clean" and most renewable energy fantasies are economically dependent on it.

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