{"id":233248,"date":"2022-12-10T13:13:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T12:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=233248"},"modified":"2022-12-10T13:13:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T12:13:17","slug":"is-the-renewable-energy-industry-nothing-more-than-a-jobs-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=233248","title":{"rendered":"Is the Renewable Energy Industry Nothing More Than a Jobs Program?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"362\" data-attachment-id=\"233256\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=233256\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-223.png?fit=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-223\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-223.png?fit=723%2C362&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-223.png?resize=723%2C362&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-233256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-223.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-223.png?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-223.png?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 For the most part, it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">By Julius Sanks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Milton Freeman famously, and probably apocryphally, upon seeing a canal being dug by hand rather than with modern equipment, is said to have remarked: \u201cOh, I thought you were building a canal. If it\u2019s jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Whether the tale is true or not, we are now seeing something similar in real life. Over at Grist, journalist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/energy\/young-people-are-steering-clear-of-oil-jobs-retention-hiring\/\">Kate Yoder crows<\/a>&nbsp;that young people are supposedly heading to renewable energy jobs rather than work for the evil fossil fuel companies. Maybe \u2014 the evidence she provides is pretty skimpy \u2014 but one statistic she provides is interesting. According to her source&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/e2.org\/reports\/clean-jobs-america-2022\/\">E2.org<\/a>, in 2021 the USA employed about 3.2 million people in \u201cclean energy\u201d jobs, and that was 3.5 times more than in fossil fuels. Doing the math, that is about 915,000 working in fossil. I found that difficult to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">E2\u2019s report got me wondering about energy production and the associated labor. Labor is, after all, a big part of any industry\u2019s cost. The renewable advocates often crow about how the industries they like are growing, but rarely compare their industries to the competition. Since E2 was talking jobs, I decided to look at actual energy production and the labor to get it. This ignores work that uses, but does not produce, energy; e.g., making electric vehicles or \u201csmart\u201d transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">All E2 did was analyze a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/policy\/us-energy-employment-jobs-report-useer\">Department of Energy (DoE) jobs report<\/a>&nbsp;and publish part of its content. The E2 report includes work that does not directly compare to fossil energy production, but does not seem to do the same thing on the fossil side. For example, E2 cites Energy Star manufacture. An appliance does not care how the electricity it uses was generated. So E2\u2019s analysis compares \u201capples and oranges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The so-called non-renewable sources provide most of our energy. Figure 1 is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/energyexplained\/us-energy-facts\/\">US Energy Information (EIA) graph<\/a>. It does not take any math to see renewable \u2014 that is the term I will use from now on, vice \u201cclean\u201d \u2014 energy is a fraction of fossil production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A British thermal unit is a standard unit used to measure energy. By definition, it is the heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of liquid water by 1 degree Fahrenheit at the temperature where water has its greatest density (about 39 degrees Fahrenheit). That is not very much heat, so energy production is typically reported in quadrillions of British thermal units (BTU), or \u201cquads.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">We can address productivity by comparing the British thermal units (BTU) produced to the number of employees in that industry. To do that we need to know our energy consumption by source. These units are in quadrillions of BTU (\u201cquads\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"472\" data-attachment-id=\"233251\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=233251\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-221.png?fit=981%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"981,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-221\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-221.png?fit=723%2C472&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-221.png?resize=723%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-233251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-221.png?w=981&amp;ssl=1 981w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-221.png?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-221.png?resize=768%2C501&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Figure 1\u00a0\u00a0 US production, downloaded from EIA\u2019s web site.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Are the clean energy workers building a power grid, or running a jobs program using shovels, or maybe spoons? Or are the non-renewable industries doing something like that? Are those renewable energy quads produced more efficiently than fossil?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">To find out, we must determine how much energy each worker produces for each source. One might think it is a simple comparison. For the most part, that is true. But not always. Although the EIA reports both production and associated manpower, for some renewables it does not use the same terminology. Your tax dollars at work. Manpower reporting also distinguishes between electricity and fuel production. Some other considerations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Biomass, which is lumped together in production, appears in five staffing categories: electricity and four fuel: corn ethanol, biomass, other ethanol, and other biomass. I lumped the staffing together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Natural gas plant liquid (NGPL) is reported separately for production, but is lumped in with all other natural gas for staff reporting. At least, I think that is what the government has done. So that is what I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There are two types of hydroelectric (hydro) power: conventional and low-impact. \u201cLow impact\u201d in this context means a plant is less environmental destructive than a conventional plant. Low-impact plants have much lower capacity than conventional. As seen in Figure 1, hydro production refers only to conventional hydro. DoE does not report low-impact production, but for some reason it does report staffing. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lowimpacthydro.org\/certified-facilities\/\">Low Impact Hydropower Institute (LIHI)<\/a>&nbsp;has a spreadsheet listing 176 \u201ccertified\u201d sites with average annual production of about 555 billion BTU. That\u2019s 0.0555 Quads. No wonder DoE does not report it, but why report the staffing? I\u2019m using the LIHI production and the DoE staffing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Finally, another technology EIA reports on the staffing side is combined heat and power (CHP). These plants are touted as having higher thermodynamic efficiency than conventional plants. Again, the EIA does not report production; but, just to keep an analyst\u2019s life interesting, combines CHP staffing with whatever fuel source the site uses. I did not find any figures for CHP energy production. However,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/239629\/number-of-combined-heat-and-power-plants-in-the-us\/\">Statista has data<\/a>&nbsp;on the number of CHP plants: 200. The number of these plants has steadily decreased from 267 in 2010. Most of these plants use natural gas.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/findenergy.com\/power-plants\/\">Find Energy reports<\/a>&nbsp;9,352 power plants in the US. With no identifiable production or staffing data and decreasing interest in the technology, I am ignoring CHP as a separate industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">So, rooting around in lengthy government reports and crunching some numbers, we end up with Table 1. I have added a couple of categories not shown in Figure 1, because the EIA reports do include them. Table 1 pro-rates the energy produced against the total staff count for each sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Table 1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Energy Produced Per Employee by Source, 2021<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table has-medium-font-size\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Energy Type<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Quads Produced<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Electricity Production Staff<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Fuel&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Production&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Staff<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Total Staff<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>BTU<\/strong><strong>s<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;Produced Per Employee<\/strong><strong><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Renewable<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Solar<\/td><td>1.5<\/td><td>333,887<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>333,887<\/td><td>4,492,537,895<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Wind<\/td><td>3.3<\/td><td>120,164<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>120,164<\/td><td>27,462,467,960<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Geothermal<\/td><td>0.2<\/td><td>8,222<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>8,222<\/td><td>24,324,981,756<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bio<\/td><td>4.6<\/td><td>12,388<\/td><td>107,586<\/td><td>119,974<\/td><td>38,341,640,689<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Conventional Hydro<\/td><td>2.3<\/td><td>53,029<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>53,029<\/td><td>43,372,494,296<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Low Impact Hydro<\/td><td>0.1<\/td><td>11,485<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>11,485<\/td><td>4,835,872,878<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Waste<\/td><td>0.2<\/td><td>11,485<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>11,485<\/td><td>17,414,018,285<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Total Renewable<\/strong><\/td><td>12.2<\/td><td>550,660<\/td><td>107,586<\/td><td>658,246<\/td><td>18,466,561,134<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Fossil<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Natural Gas &amp; NGPL<\/td><td>42.5<\/td><td>111,196<\/td><td>211,773<\/td><td>322,969<\/td><td>131,591,576,901<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Crude Oil<\/td><td>23.2<\/td><td>11,741<\/td><td>463,617<\/td><td>475,358<\/td><td>48,805,321,463<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Coal<\/td><td>11.6<\/td><td>70,831<\/td><td>53,312<\/td><td>124,143<\/td><td>93,440,628,952<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Total Fossil<\/strong><\/td><td>77.3<\/td><td>193,768<\/td><td>728,702<\/td><td>922,470<\/td><td>83,796,763,038<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nuclear<\/td><td>8.1<\/td><td>55,562<\/td><td>9,181<\/td><td>64,743<\/td><td>125,110,050,507<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td><td>187.0<\/td><td>1,544,418<\/td><td>1,574,171<\/td><td>3,226,175<\/td><td>113,652,834,862<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong>\u00a0*\u00a0\u00a0 These are total BTUs, not quads. Sources:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/energyexplained\/us-energy-facts\/\">https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/energyexplained\/us-energy-facts\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/policy\/2021-us-energy-and-employment-report\">https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/policy\/2021-us-energy-and-employment-report<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/totalenergy\/data\/monthly\/archive\/00352204.pdf\">https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/totalenergy\/data\/monthly\/archive\/00352204.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Now, that is a lot of really big numbers. To make the situation easier to understand, here is a graph based on Table 1 data, with energy sources sorted by the annual production of each employee in the sector. Figure 2 divides the amount of energy each industry produces by the number of employees working there. It thus gives us a picture of the relative labor cost for each energy source. A higher value in the graph means a lower labor cost per BTU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"504\" data-attachment-id=\"233253\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=233253\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-222.png?fit=979%2C682&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"979,682\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-222\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-222.png?fit=723%2C504&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-222.png?resize=723%2C504&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-233253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-222.png?w=979&amp;ssl=1 979w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-222.png?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-222.png?resize=768%2C535&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Figure 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Energy Production Per Employee<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">And it\u2019s not even close. Each natural gas or nuclear worker delivers an order of magnitude more energy than their competitors. I was surprised at where biofuels land. I speculate ethanol is the reason it does that well. Overall, renewable employee productivity is less than 10 percent of non-renewable productivity, so their attendant labor cost per BTU is much higher than non-renewable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This is a big reason renewable energy costs so much more than our traditional sources. Of course, labor cost is not the only reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The clean energy advocates might want us to think they are building a power grid. But they are actually running a jobs program. Shovels or spoons? Based on the numbers, I would say shovels for some industries, spoons for others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Julius Sanks is an engineer with experience developing weather satellites and weather forecasting systems, among other things.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"233258\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=233258\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-224.png?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-224\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-224.png?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-224.png?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-233258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-224.png?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-224.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-224.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-224.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">via <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-blue-color\">Watts Up With That?<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">December 9, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2022\/12\/09\/is-the-renewable-energy-industry-nothing-more-than-a-jobs-program\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=is-the-renewable-energy-industry-nothing-more-than-a-jobs-program\">Is the Renewable Energy Industry Nothing More Than a Jobs Program? 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