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2. A link to that swell guy Amory Lovins, who reported in 1976 that the US would be producing 25...
Wed Aug 7, 2013, 06:38 PM
Aug 2013

...quads of energy in the US by the year 2000, that nuclear power was dead in 1980 and oh yes, my favorite, that hydrogen hypercars would be in showrooms by 2005.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/10/1016_TVhypercar.html

No matter how fast the rate of the decomposition of the atmosphere accelerates we'll hear the same line of faith based bull, up until the last minute.

Lovins won't give a shit. He's been living in that hellhole of a McMansion in Snowmass while three billion people on this planet lack even a latrine. He's a fucking useless consumer, like the rest of his ilk.

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