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hunter

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3. The "green energy transition" is a total fantasy. It's magical thinking.
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 01:02 PM
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The numbers don't add up.

Fossil fuels, a high density energy resource, made it possible for the human population to exceed eight billion.

Without high density energy resources at least half of us would suffer and die.

Unfortunately if we don't quit fossil fuels now this will only accelerate the great extinction were in the midst of and most, if not all, humans will perish.

We're between a rock and a hard place.

"Renewable" energy resources are entirely dependent on fossil fuels, especially natural gas, for their economic viability and thus will only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels. Renewable energy will do nothing in the long run to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gasses humans eventually dump into earth's atmosphere.

There is more than enough gas in the ground to obliterate the natural world as we know it, including the environments that support us. By any measure gas is the most dangerous energy resource. It's best to leave that gas in the ground.

Hybrid gas / wind / solar power systems are not going to save the world.

Like it or not, the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely, including natural gas, is nuclear power.

The false promises of a renewable energy "transition" (and likewise fusion power) are the best thing that could have happened to the fossil fuel industry.

Something that's rarely said by either the renewable energy proponents or the nuclear power proponents is that if we build enough nuclear power plants to displace fossil fuels entirely then we don't need large scale wind or solar development either.

The fossil fuel industries and the renewable energy industries share a common interest.

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