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Hate to burst your bubble of excitement, but just today (or over the weekend) Texas is in the news for the wrong reasons (yet again, and no guns involved in this particular news). Legislation is being pushed to encourage natural gas and slowing down wind/solar. New regulations to place annual permits on wind farms because of the blight on the scenery type excuses. The people are gas lighting the public (pun intended) to the point that they blame renewable energy for the failures of the gas plants during the '21 freeze and the public is accepting it. So in Texas, discounts for fossil fuels, extra fees for renewables.


This, plus the fact that nothing remotely competes with fossil fuels. The simple fact is that after fossil fuels, we will have less energy, and there is no silver bullet: we need to start doing less with less energy, and stop hoping for a technological breakthrough that will save us.

Bad news is that we still have enough fossil fuels to finish screwing up the climate.




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