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Originally Posted by Coup
We have the technology to, in large part, replace coal/gas plants. we just need to get very serious about implementing it. A couple little wind farms here, a couple little solar plants there ain't gonna cut it.
We will of course never be able to do without oil all together. But there are thousands of ways that we can cut consumption drastically. We just have to get very serious about it.
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Solar and wind, as the technology is now just isn't viable on a large scale. They are setting up a 120 arcre 'solar farm' around here in the next couple of years but its only going to generate enough energy to power 1500 homes they estimate. It almost seems like a waste. Same with turbines, these huge ugly potentionally dangerous things all over the nations beautiful coastlines and other areas and they generate next to nothing for the space and cost. We need some new ideas.