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By matthewsweet (registered) | Posted January 27, 2014 at 13:49:12

What follows are not my own original points, but others have expressed them and I happen to buy in. Therefore, while I admire Mr Turner's optimism, calling a future of electric cars and wind farms "fossil fuel free" ignores entirely the fact that mass production of personal vehicles (regardless of fuel source) is fully dependant on fossil fuels, ignores the fact that industrial sized wind turbines are only possible due to fossil fuels, when you account for manufacturing techniques, supply chain logistics, transportation of finished goods etc. And no, we can't expect to have cell phones and computers without fossil fuels, for precisely the same reasons. Society's dependance on fossil fuels does not begin and end at the fuel pump. Further, we can't expect the same quality of life and consumption of energy without fossil fuels, simply because the amount of energy contained in fossil fuels cannot be matched by so-called sustainable energy sources. Consumption will necessarily have to be reduced as we reduce our use of fossil fuels, whether that reduction in use happens voluntarily or not.

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