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seszettyesterday at 10:06 AM3 repliesview on HN

> sometimes fossil fuels are a good fit

There is simply NO safe level of fossil fuel use.


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ben_wyesterday at 10:10 AM

Disagree, it's just that the safe level is around 0.1% of current use (though I don't just mean use of fossil fuels for electricity, I mean *everything*).

danw1979yesterday at 10:40 AM

There’s applications that we still have no alternative for though - e.g. aviation - so we’ll have to accept the burning of hydrocarbons there.

Not fossil hydrocarbons forever, of course, but synthetic kerosene might be a thing soon enough.

cinntaileyesterday at 11:18 AM

I don't know what you mean with "no safe level of fossil fuel use". It doesn't mean anything without contextualizing that statement.

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