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1. Global switch to 100% clean fuel pays for itself in 7 years
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 03:56 AM
Jan 2020

Apparently sunlight, wind, falling water, geological heat, etc are free while digging up coal is not. A new study calculate we can convert to 100% clean fuel, worldwide, for $73 trillion. That $73 trillion will pay for itself in less than 7 years.

We only need political will.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/the-global-price-tag-for-100-percent-renewable-energy-73-trillion

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