Sustainable Energy, the Climate Industrial Complex, and Windmills
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https://doi.org/10.14738/aivp.111.14126Abstract
This article makes the case that 1: A reasonable approach to economically and environmentally viable sustainable energy, an approach that is able to sustain modern civilization now and in the future, is a continued use of fossil fuel, followed by a gradual change to nuclear power first fueled by mined uranium, and then later on by breeding nuclear fuel; 2: While the climate always has changed and always will, there is no climate crisis; and 3: Windmills, solar panels and batteries alone are not viable power sources for a modern civilization. They are neither economically, nor environmentally viable.
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