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hunter

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5. The dirty fracking gas industry wets their pants in glee...
Thu May 21, 2015, 03:46 PM
May 2015

... because anti-nuclear activists, "renewable energy" and hydrogen fuel fetishists, so often do their work for free.

Barry Commoner, a man I shook hands with and spoke with a few times had this idea of a great international "natural" gas network similar to Buckminster Fuller's international HVDC electrical network. Money based on kilowatt hours. (I was introduced to and shook hands with Buckminster Fuller. I've also dined with Helen Caldicott and Hans Bethe. Bethe was a sweetheart, even to a young misfit like me.)

In Commoner's grand vision most of this gas was actually natural.

All these fine dreams of a young man were subverted by the dirtiest fossil fuel industries and the politicians in their keep.

Bad situations I've run away from.


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