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hunter

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6. Wind and solar are entirely dependent on fossil fuels for their economic viability.
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 01:34 AM
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They cannot displace fossil fuels entirely and will do NOTHING, absolutely nothing to reduce the total amount of fossil fuels wastes human beings ultimately dump into the earth's atmosphere and oceans.

Like it or not, the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely is nuclear power. If we build nuclear power plants we don't need environmentally destructive fossil fuel dependent industrial scale wind and solar development.

There is nothing "green" about destroying previously undeveloped landscapes and seascapes with short-lived solar and wind crap.

90% or more of AI applications are crap too, not just for the environmental destruction they are causing, but for the social damage they cause as well.

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