Doublethink in science. Coal is a renewable resource?

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12. That chart neglects the commitment to natural gas each kilowatt of wind or solar power represents.

When you look at the capacity factors of wind or solar, and account for the gas that will be burned when wind or solar power isn't available, wind and solar don't look so attractive.

A hybrid electric grid where half or more of the energy is coming from natural gas isn't going to save the world, especially in a growing world economy where more and more people are expecting to buy consumer goods such as air conditioners, refrigerators, clothes washers and dryers, and other home appliances.

Wind and solar energy is the best thing that ever happened to the natural gas industry.

Unfortunately there is enough cheap, extractable gas in the ground to destroy the world as we know it.