Fossil Fuels Transition

The cluster focuses on debates about transitioning away from fossil fuels due to their finite supply, environmental impacts, and the need for alternatives like renewables, including discussions on policy, economics, and industry resistance.

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Sample Comments

tossl568 β€’ Oct 31, 2022 β€’ View on HN

Sounds like you have a problem with fossil fuels.

coralreef β€’ Mar 6, 2016 β€’ View on HN

Can you expand on the fossil fuels comment?

yters β€’ Jan 16, 2020 β€’ View on HN

Won't we run out of fossil fuels soon, making this a non issue?

BlueTemplar β€’ Feb 22, 2020 β€’ View on HN

Finite fossil fuels... which might not even be "environmentally cheaper" in the long run...

revscat β€’ Jul 23, 2023 β€’ View on HN

It’s either get off fossil fuels or die.

bamboozled β€’ Aug 7, 2021 β€’ View on HN

Geez, you'd think there were no alternatives to continuing to burn fossil fuels or something ?

RGamma β€’ Oct 31, 2024 β€’ View on HN

Another reason to get rid of fossil fuels ASAP.

Moldoteck β€’ Nov 6, 2024 β€’ View on HN

as someone from eu - doesn't us now/under dems extract top amount of fossils from all the time? I mean it's not like it was good now. It looks like it'll get worse but the current path wasn't good either...

kirso β€’ Mar 24, 2024 β€’ View on HN

I think the world fossil fuel capitalists will have something to say about that unfortunately :/

Emma_Goldman β€’ Nov 28, 2023 β€’ View on HN

The depletion of fossil fuels is not the problem. In fact, the opposite is true: we need to leave a very large proportion of present-day fossil fuel reserves in the ground if we're to avert catastrophic increases in global radiative forcing, and leading fossil fuel states don't particularly want to do that. Renewables, and potentially nuclear, can deliver all the energy we need if we are intelligent about it. Some things will be more expensive in the medium-term (producing extreme high