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NYC_SKP

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3. If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly.

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 05:59 PM

Feb 2013

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Loves me some Tesla.

The traditional distinction between energy sources is between renewables and nonrenewables.

But a better breakdown, IMHO, distinguishes fuel-based versus non-fuel-based sources.

Thus, wind, solar, and hydro, which have no fuel to extract, process, transport, and waste-management, stand apart from the rest.

I don't, however, mind methane recovery and cellulosic ethanol, where it truly makes sense.

Corn fuel, no thanks.

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