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Originally Posted by Mass_nerder
Even if we have access to vast reserves of natural gas, it's still a temporary fix. Any solution involving a finite resource is not the answer.
I'm not even arguing from an environmental conservation standpoint.
I don't see a problem with a natural resource being utilized; it just needs to be closely regulated.
"Eleventy billion years" is going to start getting shorter if we're tossing it at everything, like we did with oil, as Earth's population continues to grow.
7 billion at the end of October? How long before we're hitting 8,9,10 billion?
All the while, developing countries continue to grow, using a larger percentage of the finite resource.
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One day natural gas will be about the same price per mWh as renewables, and obviously then there is no reason to not choose renewables.
Whether this happens by the diminishing of our natural gas supply (not good) or technological developments reducing the cost of renewable energy (good). It will happen. Problems like this take care of themselves.