Holy shit yes.
It's one of the cleanest and least harmful methods we have, and our best hope at surviving the next couple of centuries.
It is green energy because it emits zero carbon, just steam. The waste products make more fuel, the associated waste (such as used PPE, metals, glass, water, concrete, etc) and what's left over from the depleted fuel can and should be stored in such a way as to produce useful energy too (the stuff is literally hot, so chuck it down a sufficiently engineered hole and stick a geothermal power plant on top), or make a fucking huge RTG to power your Van Neumann probe or whatever).
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Sat 20 Feb 2021, 19:01,
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So all the natural oil refineries will go extinct.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 20 Feb 2021, 22:10,
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Isn't a natural gas deposit the result of natural refinery, from a certain point of view?
Fossil fuel deposits would certainly go extinct if all life on Earth went extinct first. It would take a while, but we wouldn't care.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Sat 20 Feb 2021, 22:40,
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That point of view changes as you need it too.
It's nearly off the page so I'm damned if I'll let you have the last word.
*raspberries*
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 21 Feb 2021, 1:48,
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