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What would be the downsides of cheap, eco-friendly energy?

• LeoPanthera 8y ago
  High demand for electricity may increase the price of energy as a whole, which may make the production of electricity from fossil fuels profitable enough to expand.
• sirsar 8y ago
  See Jevons paradox, where increasing coal-efficiency counterintuitively increased coal usage and pollution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
• jacobush 8y ago
  What are you going to use it for, if it's all dumped into the jaws of Mammon, quite literally, just to uphold status quo. (Mining.)