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Old 10-17-2017, 10:50 PM   #394 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Panther140 View Post
Maybe for you city people
Billions of people live in big cities for which any of your suggestions do not apply. And don't forget, your energy footprint is not just what you control around your house. Roads, schools, hospitals, factories, your generator, your boots, are all made from vast amounts of energy that your are partaking in.

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We can't wait until fossil fuel gets too expensive to start building it's replacement since it takes vast amounts of energy, mostly in the form of liquid fuel, to build large things or mine the raw materials we need for things like GigaFactories and installing wind turbines.
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For instance, it takes the output of 75 SolarStar farms for EV driving to replace the gas that is used in California alone. And billions of tons of batteries.