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Originally Posted by aerohead
If you'll pull back, and look at the bigger picture, you may find that there are already competitive technological solutions currently in the marketplace which can satisfy our energy challenges.
It's just a matter of scale.
I believe that many with SCI security clearances are sick and tired of the USA being in a position to be held ransom for strategic materials that 'don't grow in the USA.'
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What are the competitive technological solutions currently in the marketplace which can satisfy our energy challenges?
Based on my experience, it seems there are 2 major sects of the climate catastrophism religion.
One believes the technology already exists to replace fossil fuels as energy sources almost entirely, but the greedy oil industry is suppressing alternatives.
The other understands that the technology does not exist, and even if it did, the cheap energy would just increase consumption in everything else. Their final solution is less people.
Of those who believe less people is the solution, a tiny portion of them correctly understands that overall wealth and the ease of living we now enjoy would be diminished. They believe the sacrifice is worth it.
As to US minerals, we're rich. We've decided not to extract the minerals here. Furthermore, we've decided to not update our refineries to handle the type of oil shale produces, so we export that out, and import in the type of oil our refineries were designed for.
The US could mine and manufacture everything, but we choose not to.
I'm fine with globalism so long as all eggs aren't in a single communist country. If there were multiple countries producing the same type of good, that creates a bit of resiliency.