But the researchers found that for shale gas to be considered as sustainable as the best options, such as wind and solar PV, huge improvements would be needed. This includes a 329-fold reduction in environmental impacts and 16 times higher employment in the sector.
By that employment metric, the best power generation technology would be ten million men and woman riding stationary bicycles for ten hour shifts.
For several hundred years, geniuses, inventors, and entrepreneurs have toiled to reduce man's burden and constantly strive to improve productivity. Leftists want to undo all that.