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hunter

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5. It's scares the hell out of me that some of today's largest industrial projects...
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 08:30 PM
Nov 2017

... are natural gas extraction.

There's more than enough "natural" gas (great marketing term!) to destroy the world as we know it, and too many wind and solar energy enthusiasts who become unwitting shills for the gas industry.

Nimble gas power plants in combination with solar and wind energy may be profitable in the short run, but they are hardly any better than coal, especially in expanding fossil fueled economies.

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