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Originally Posted by Mathgod
Oil companies have, for many decades, funded climate denial efforts via dark money. That's the reality of the situation and is largely the reason why we aren't further along than we are in the transition toward clean energy.
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No it's not. The reality is the technology is only now being developed, and not for a lack of trying. It requires specialized technologies that didn't exist, and many that couldn't without our advancements in material sciences, microchips, energy storage, and on and on. Even now we don't really have a path to large scale energy storage in a way that would allow abandoning fossil fuels, let alone generation. Even one sector, like personal transport, is at least a decade from that(probably more like double), and no one can really pinpoint where we get all the materials for it, because it's such a colossal task.
If you believe this to be true, please cite specific technologies that could have been developed earlier that would have allowed abandoning fossil fuels, if only the evil oil companies hadn't done so and so for decades...