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What is happening now is, for example, USA/Canada building oil extraction platforms, possibly with fracking, in Botswana. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/20/new-oilf...

Maybe the more developed countries should build or invest in power plants from renewable sources, or maybe nuclear, in less developed countries.

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that require fossil fuels.

Ever seen what goes into building a windmill?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/to-get-wind-power-you-need-oil?fbc...

We are not even theoretically close to getting off oil, gas or coal.

Is nuclear a better option then?

If it can be built without the draconian regulation you see in the west perhaps. Fossil fuel is still required though.

If it is safety regulation you're talking about, that is not exactly a plus for the local population. Sure, it is a non-renewable source of power, but it doesn't produce CO2 after it starts to operate. Ideally, it could be even used to capture carbon from air.

i am a big proponent of nuclear but less than 20% of any country’s energy needs are electricity.

If there is ever a good excuse to use fossil fuels its to build something which will deprecate them.

I love nuclear but we are not going to deprecate fossil fuels. You can't build neither nuclear nor wind or solar without huge amounts of fossil fuels and again electricity is less than 20% of a country's energy consumption.

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