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Old 11-03-2023, 05:33 AM
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Originally Posted by BrianL99 View Post
Alternative/renewable energy alternatives, simply don't work financially. EV cars are a disaster, no one wants one. Wind farms have just about given up the ghost. Rooftop solar is a non-starter in most of the country. It it wasn't for government mandates and/or incentives, they'd be no one even willing to try these supposed alternatives.

Perhaps we should consider tapping the fossil fuels buried under the USA, that government has prevented from being harvested? I know it's a temporary solution, we probably only have sufficient fossil fuels to support the current rate of usage, for a 100 or so years.
Add in the real cost of having communist countries holding a monopoly on the minerals needed for solar (mined with child labor) and solar cell production, we have even more reason to see solar collapse.
BTW, fossil fuel extraction techniques are continuously evolving with a forecast not of 100s of years supply, but thousands of years supply.
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