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scottLobster • yesterday at 2:37 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

You can't be worried about fracking and coal at the same time in the US. The former is the reason for the latter's demise


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cassepipe • yesterday at 3:49 PM

You can. It's not because fracking has displaced coal that it's overall a net benefit (I know it is somewhat true for climate change, I don't have an informed opinion concerning environmental pollution) and it's what should have happenned.

For example either renewables + batteries or nuclear could have displaced coal. Just because there wasn't enough money/political support for it doesn't mean that we shouldn't worry about both fracking and coal usage consequences.

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solarkraft • yesterday at 4:23 PM

Why shouldn’t one be able to worry about 2 bad things at the same time?

ck2 • yesterday at 3:01 PM

wow that's the most repeat fallacy, I even see in political commercials now

we don't use domestic oil, we sell it overseas

and oil until pop-up "ai" datacenters was not used for power production

you are thinking about solar and wind power for coal's demise

which now they are also defunding, even worse reusing the funds for coal investment

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