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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
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I was about to be persnickety and argue a point about wind and solar requiring large battery infrastructure, which necessitates massive lithium mining operations that devastate their local ecosystems and require a ton of energy to ship across the ocean, but then I read the bit about graphene-sodium banks instead.  I have the big approve.
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It gets better: they started researching using coal slurry to produce carbon fiber three years ago and the results were *very* promising in terms of both output and cost. I know libright is generally anti-regulation, but a capture mandate for extraction waste would not only supply the resources to jump-start this train of development without impacting current power production, does wonders for local ecosystems and the water table, *and* provides a second revenue stream for the mines themselves. Literally no one loses. Even if coal as a fuel source falls out of favor, that's just more carbon for manufacturing - and things like those power cells are gonna have *global* demand.