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The best thing about this technology is all the existing systems. Experienced workforce, an established manufacturing and supply chain, global projects. And it
by irq-1 3y ago
The best thing about this technology is all the existing systems. Experienced workforce, an established manufacturing and supply chain, global projects. And it all comes from the oil and gas industry that will decline with green power, so there can be transition instead of a huge disruption.
- adrianmonk 3y agoAnd it's not just the inconvenience of disruption. The reason oil companies are putting up resistance against clean energy isn't that they hate the environment. It's that they love money. They don't want someone to declare their goose's golden eggs obsolete. If someone came along and said "we can teach your golden goose to lay a different type of egg which is also golden", they might get behind that. And they might tell the politicians that they pay for to get behind it too. Transitioning the entire world's energy infrastructure is still going to be very challenging and very expensive, but it would be less difficult if we could at least get all sides to agree that it's something we want to do.