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-The only viable energy sources we currently have other than nuclear are fossil fuels – renewable shift is possible, but natural gas will have to be used as a bridge |
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-Smil 15 (Vaclav Smil – Distinguished Professor Emeritus who has published over 37 books and works in interdisciplinary research in areas such as energy, environment, and public policy. He has been a consultant for several international organizations and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Canada, which is a science academy. “Natural Gas: Fuel for the 21st Century”, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119012864.html, pg. x, EmmieeM) |
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-To many forward-looking energy experts, this may seem to be a strangely |
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-thorough understanding of requirements, benefits, and challenges of natural gas ascendance. |
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-Renewables require back-up due to intermittency – natural gas industry will expand in conjunction with renewables |
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-Trembath et al 13 (Alex, policy analyst in the Energy and Climate Program at Breakthrough Institute, where he researches and writes about renewable energy technologies, American federal energy policy and the history of public investments in technological innovation, and Max Luke, policy associate in the Energy and Climate Program at Breakthrough, where his research focused on a range of energy issues and topics including nuclear power, natural gas, renewables, energy efficiency rebound and backfire, national energy subsidies, and electricity systems, with Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, “Coal Killer: How Natural Gas Fuels the Clean Energy Revolution”, http://thebreakthrough.org/images/main_image/Breakthrough_Institute_Coal_Killer.pdf) |
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-Gas-fired power provides cheap, low-carbon, and flexible backup support |
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-power sources and can ramp as fast as 100 MW per minute.97 |
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-Natural gas is key to Russian expansionism – they hold a monopoly on the global LNG market |
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-Hermant, 14 (ABC's Moscow correspondent from 2010-13. He returned in March 2014 to cover the Ukraine crisis from Moscow and Kiev. (Norman, “Russia's natural gas is Vladimir Putin's political and economical weapon,” ABC Australia, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-16/natural-gas-is-putins-political-and-economical-weapon/5394030) //IS |
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-For Vladimir Putin, natural gas is not just a resource. It is an |
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-it seem like energy from Russia is simply part of the European fabric. |
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-Russian expansionism triggers multiple scenarios for extinction |
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-Blank 9,( strategic Studies Institute's expert on the Soviet bloc and the post-Soviet world since 1989; former Associate Professor of Soviet Studies at the Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base; B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago, March. “RUSSIA AND ARMS CONTROL: ARE THERE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION?” |
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-Proliferators or nuclear states like China and Russia can then deter regional or intercontinental attacks |
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-perhaps make wars of aggression on their neighbors or their own people.172 |