By Larry Bell ~
As we all recognize, access to clean and reliable energy is fundamentally important to countless aspects of our lives, our social and economic communities, and our long-term abilities to live in healthy balance with natural ecosystems.
So, this being the case, can we expect a new so-called “clean energy revolution” — primarily referring to wind and solar — to replace the “dirty old” hydrocarbon industries?
For example, like what happened when hydrocarbon-fueled internal combustion horsepower disrupted buggy whip businesses of the early 1900s — and when flip-phone makers lost out at the dawn of Apple’s iPhone?
Don’t count on such reality-challenged notions regarding hydrocarbon obsolescence occurring anytime soon.
No current energy technology on the immediate horizon has a game-changing potential anywhere nearly analogous to the truly revolutionary invention of the transistor or internet.
Nor, for that matter, has any so-called “alternative” energy source or invention supplanted…
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Mar 17, 2020 @ 08:05:07
Great topic for discussion…
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