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If You Want ‘Renewable Energy,’ Get Ready to Dig

8 July 2020 by DSR

  “Democrats dream of powering society entirely with wind and solar farms combined with massive batteries. Realizing this dream would require the biggest expansion in mining the world has seen and would produce huge quantities of waste. “Renewable energy” is a misnomer. Wind and solar machines and batteries are built from nonrenewable materials. And they … [Read more…]

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