[The_Pale_Rider]

Fossil Fuels are not going anywhere. Oh we may not burn them for power generation, but anyone want to speak about where all the copper wiring in your home came from? How about the nails and screws? Did the wood cut itself to appropriate lengths? What is your toilet and bathtub made out of? How does the drinking water get to the house and waste from it? Concrete? (I've heard $1000 / cubic meter after flyash goes away) Ashphalt shingles? Vehicle wise: How do the rubber plants make the appropriate sized tires? What is the casing for the batteries made out of? How about the casings for the electric motors and windings? Transmissions? Differentials? Bearings? I must have missed seeing all the overhead power lines for the haul trucks and locomotives, oh wait, that's DIESEL-Electric motors. Mine draglines and some shovels are electric, about 20 megawatts an hour for the draglines, somewhere around 7 to 10 for the smaller shovels.