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Old 08-31-2018, 01:31 PM   #2665 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
I understood his point, immediately.

I will make it plain: the cost of using fossil fuels is incalculable.
That is fine to say as long as you also realize intrinsically that fossil fuel has allowed human civilization to balloon far beyond being able to survive on current real time solar flows. We cannot just stop without the economy crashing and the world starving and falling apart. And there is no scale of rebuildables that can be implemented to maintain our numbers now without it.
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We have all but eaten our seed corn of affordable liquid fuel to attempt a complete retrofit.

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