Richard Lindzen
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Well, by making it expensive, by eliminating fossil fuels, fossil fuels are cheaper.
At least the experience in the UK is when you switch to, quote, renewables, it tripled the price of electricity.
They can't afford it.
Coal, anything, whatever is available.
That's an issue, right?
How should I put it?
You know, it's always a matter of cost.
We have a plant, I think, in Alabama that has basically as clean as any other plant that burns coal.
You can clean it.
You can scrub it.
You can get rid of almost everything except CO2.
And there are, of course, the alternative natural gas and so on, which are available in places.
Right.
There are places where you're lucky, like in Norway or Quebec, where you have hydro, which is intrinsically clean.
But there's a problem with politicians.
I remember once...
being in D.C.
and some Republican politicians came and said, you know what we just did?
We banned incandescent light bulbs.