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hunter

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6. There's always some technology on the horizon that will supposedly save our asses from the fire.

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:10 AM

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Somehow these technologies never work out and we continue to burn fossil fuels.

What's worse, some of these pie-in-the-sky technologies continue to be promoted long after there is ample proof they don't work.

We already have the technologies we need to quit fossil fuels. We just have to do it.

As for energy storage systems, there will always be incremental technological advances. Nevertheless we are already pushing close to the limits imposed upon us by the physical universe itself.

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