The Crack Pock Fantasies

Rogan: This is the only thing in fossil future that i can explain better now than I could when it was written. All of these studies are claiming that, in one way or another, again, we can rapidly replace fossil fuels with solar men. They all have three things in common - they involve things that lead to indeterminate and high prices. Thet're just things that aren't working on any scale, and they're claiming they'll work on every scale. That's number one, you know, it's just crack plot. Number two is that they involve a crash programme of unprecedented mining and intr structure building. And then the third thing that makes it just totally disingenuous

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