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Originally Posted by zamler
I'd love to see a coherent plan to replace fossil fuel energy, and replace crude oil used in producing millions of products. Show me the math.
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The solution, like the problem, is very complex. The petrochemical industry is not going away. It is just going change. Change in the way we use it and how much we use it. We'll use the hydrocarbon molecule for power generation, but in more efficient power plants that can then sequester the carbon pollution. We'll still use oil in the production of some plastics, but shift others to renewable sources of oils. We will continue to develop new technologies and improve the ones we have to shift away from reliance on the hydrocarbon molecule. There is no rapid single bullet solution, but we have to do everything we can to get off of the hydrocarbon economy as quickly as we can. This will include renewables, new generation nuclear, and probably many technologies currently in their infancy or on the drawing board. The math isn't 1+1=2. It's way more complex than that, and there are a lot of variables we have to solve to complete the equation.