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hunter

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13. Projects like this do not make me optimistic about the future.

Mon Jul 6, 2026, 03:32 PM

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This will increase the price of electricity to consumers without a corresponding reduction of adverse environmental impacts.

If we are truly interested in reducing the environmental footprint of humanity there are more effective ways of accomplishing that.

Trashing vast areas of wilderness with solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and "backup" gas power plants isn't going to save the world. It's not even going to delay the catastrophic collapse of earth's natural environment as we humans have known it.

I'm not without optimism, this just doesn't do it for me. The math doesn't work.

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