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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Yes. Elements are generally neither created nor destroyed on Earth barring natural radioactive decays or high tech human nuclear processes. Some Helium is slowly blown away by solar wind despite Earth's protective magnetic field.
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Approximately 15 billion years ago the universe began as an extremely hot and dense region of radiant energy, the Big Bang. Immediately after its formation, it began to expand and cool. The radiant energy produced quark-antiquarks and electron-positrons, and other particle-antiparticle pairs.At...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    "And no, the currently proposed Green New Deal won’t do it. Here, then, is what an effective “Green New Deal” might look like: 1. Formal recognition of the end of material growth and the need to reduce the human ecological footprint; 2. Acknowledgement that, as long as we remain in overshoot...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    William E. Reese: "The modern world is deeply addicted to fossil fuels and green energy is no substitute." "As long as the growth in demand exceeds additions to supply from renewables, the latter cannot displace fossil fuels even in electricity generation — and remember, electricity is still...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    The human mind can dream up many more ideas than what can exist in the real world. Round trip Hydrogen is probably still well under 40% efficient and very expensive and makes no sense whatsoever for grid scale stationary storage. The unfortunate reality is that future energy availability is...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    The hardware for fusion is so expensive to build and then maintain after the constant neutronic damage to the inner most vacuum wall and heat transfering magnet shield. which requires complete disassembly to replace, even if we could get it to run uninterrupted at positive energy for more than a...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    All due to fossil fuel. Which will be leaving us soon either by decision or depletion.
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Human population. . .
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions . . . .
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    The Earth is becoming Planet of the Humans. People and our livestock now outweigh wild land mammals 50:1 . "The current rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background rates. also, the current rate of extinction is 10 to 100 times higher than in...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    NASA has a good site. . https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    We still added more CO2 than was taken up by the sinks even with the shut down. Atmospheric CO2 is higher now than last year. And than any other year for the last 2 million years. It is just 11% "less higher" than it would have been. We would have to cut CO2 emissions by 50% to make atmospheric...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    "Our findings show that the annual average CO2 concentrations will still increase through this year, even though emissions are reducing. Across the whole year, we estimate CO2 levels will rise by 2.48 parts per million (ppm). This increase is 0.32ppm smaller than if there had been no lockdown –...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    You need to read the proposal of H.R. 763, It is designed to give back all of the fees as dividends to every tax payer so that only above average consumption will equate to a net increased tax burden. Poor people that don't consume as much will actually get back more than they pay in increased...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    The interstate highway system has served me well for half a million miles My public high school education including algebra, geometry, trig, chemistry, and physics, has served me well. My public firefighters and rescue do a good job. My local police are even quite respectable. My water system...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    It's not supposed to work that way with increased profit margins all along the way. The intent is that this Carbon tax plan would be revenue neutral to the middle class and down while spurring the market forces to allow a replacement of Carbon energy by increasing it's cost. As it also forces...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    In the USA there is an interesting and well researched Proposal that keeps being reintroduced in the House of Representatives. H. R. 763. Which is written to be a progressive tax revenue neutral way to gradually rolling in a Carbon tax with 95% (or whatever is left after administration costs)...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    João L R Abegão: Brilliant and insightful with a fascinating command of high level English wordsmith. Artistic as it is essential. Information to steer for better futures. . https://www.overpopulationatlas.com/post/eternal-recurrence?postId=5f26d03164854800179e1945 . Some excerpts: . "Still...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Do the revenues from Carbon taxes enter into a general tax fund or are they earmarked for special uses such as incentives for private investment in the clean energy transition?
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    . . https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts .
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    A few tenths of a percent of oil powered electricity in the USA is next to nothing. Throw out Hawaii and Puerto Rico and it will be much less. But all rich nations rely on a great deal of oil for other forms of energy which are very difficult to transition to electricity due to 100's $trillions...
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    Wow! Sharp repartee. Seemingly effortless brilliance. Nate Hagens . https://www.sismique.fr/post/where-are-we-going-nate-hagens?fbclid=IwAR3loRwLHWKwqXu7yRaTKtNuPILQwIhAMOeGo-WrgBYSvwPX7lTj6CT7Nzg
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Nate Hagens: "We need to get working on an ad hoc "break glass in case of emergency" response to the impending financial collapses that will be coming due to the pre-existing fragile state of the world economy and the new extreme pressures of the Corona virus." https://youtu.be/DBQZhEy9CoE
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    So the most modern solar PV had ER/EI of 11. . "An input correction with recent technological improvements for all studies resulted for mono- and polysilicon solar-PV in an adjusted mean harmonized EPT of 3.5 and 2.4 years and NER of 9.7 and 11.4 times, respectively." . But the studies didn't...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    So in addition to replacing all energy with electricity and adding 200 TWh of storage, and installing two way smart meters with complete internetofthings load control throughout, we also have to replace all infrastructure. It is obvious to me, on a world scale, when considering the environmental...
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