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hunter

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8. No, we're not going to save the world by trashing it.
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 11:09 AM
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Wind farms will do nothing in the long run to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They are dependent on fossil fuels, especially natural gas, for their economic viability.

We don't need to reduce our use of fossil fuels, we need to ban the use of fossil fuels entirely.

Hydrogen has been promoted as an energy storage medium and fuel for half a century at least. The reason hydrogen projects inevitably fail isn't because the oil companies conspire to destroy them, it's because hydrogen is such a dismal energy storage medium and fuel. This is not a problem technical innovations can solve, it's basic thermodynamics and the physical properties of hydrogen that make this so.

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