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hunter

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8. The world is burning. How long are we going to pretend natural gas is harmless...
Tue Aug 27, 2024, 03:14 PM
Aug 2024

...because it supports our solar and wind fantasies?

If we shut down Diablo Canyon now it would be replaced with natural gas power plants that would still be dumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere forty years from now.

People keep claiming that solar and wind power "still costs less than nuclear" but that's a fucking lie. Creative accounting.

Wind and solar power are not economically viable without fossil fuels.

As it is, the actual cost of new hybrid solar / wind / natural gas power systems are comparable to expensive new nuclear construction such as the Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia.

Some of these solar and wind projects, covertly and overtly promoted by fossil fuel interests, are MORE expensive than nuclear power and will do nothing, absolutely nothing, to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gasses we humans eventually dump into the atmosphere.

The most dangerous energy resource isn't nuclear power. It's natural gas.

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