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Lachrymologist

(15 posts)
13. Renewable Energy Capture and Storage Requires Coal, Oil and Natural Gas
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 03:17 PM
Nov 2017

The technology we use to harvest, store and transport this renewable energy are all impossible to engineer, build, deploy and maintain without vast amounts of coal, oil and natural gas.

So, in a very direct way, the production of coal, oil and natural gas is driving almost ALL of this job creation in renewable energy.

Additionally, most of the calories eaten by the people having the added jobs are also there because fossil fuel is so energy dense.

Energy is only as renewable as the technology used to gather it. Solar panels and wind turbines are unsustainable given that they can't be built in the required quantities without fossil fuels.

Your, "NOT," is quite misplaced in my opinion.

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