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OKIsItJustMe

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7. I didn't ask about the fuel

Reply to NNadir (Reply #6)

Thu Apr 30, 2026, 10:51 AM

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You like to remind people that renewable energy requires the use of materials, which must be mined, while pretending that a construction like this has no environmental impacts:

(Those plumes are not smoke they are steam/water vapor. As you pointed out, thermal power plants heat water drawn from lakes and rivers converting a great deal of it into water vapor.)

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