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BlueIn_W_Pa

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11. "We all ought to be finding ways to lift everyone out of poverty on a global scale"

Reply to hunter (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 23, 2023, 08:58 AM

Aug 2023

without cheap oil?

Impossible. The only reason there are an additional 6 billion people since 1900 is solely due to cheap oil.

Without cheap oil, life will get bad for those 6 billion. The energy density of oil is something like 2 quadrillion times what solar is. Onlt thing coming close is nuclear.

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