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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
If there's nothing practical, then, yeah, we keep doing what we're doing until someone can convince me we should do something else instead.
As usual, a bunch of run-on rhetorical garbage devoid of any content aside from the demonizing of an industry and providing absolutely no viable options or actual policy that anyone could possibly support, even if you convinced me that oil companies are literally run by CEO Lucifer.
I don't know how I can be clearer here: You cannot just be against the status quo. You need to be for an alternative. You need to be able to articulate what that alternative is and why we should prefer it to the status quo. Otherwise you have literally no political position whatsoever; only the absence of a position.
More vague references to "something better" and "things" with absolutely no details about these "things", or how we can use them to our advantage, or why they would improve our situation.
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Well I personally wrote a few papers in Uni on the economic viability of solar energy and came to the conclusion that the issue is not the it isn't viable, it's that the lack of funding towards R&D is holding back proper development as compared with the rapid growth in other areas of technology to bring the price closer (and eventually below) that of fossil fuels. So I am personally partial to solar mostly because I did a good amount of research on it. But we need research into how to store the energy, which is ongoing but again, severely underfunded as compared with the constant advancements in getting o&g out of the ground.
Nuclear (although not as clean as most, and involves mining, it doesn't have near the impact of o&g and is becoming increasingly cleaner).
Geothermal
Wind
Hydro
All options in our corner of the world. And, while none of them meet our needs individually, collectively they can certainly do so.
http://www.ted.com/talks/debate_does...gy?language=en
This debate is nuclear vs all other alternatives. They don't even discuss o&g and show that they can meet our needs and then some if only applied properly.