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> Just about all high-energy industries that don't use up limited resources are sustainable. This is an odd statement. Don't most high energy industries use fo
by abalone 10y ago
> Just about all high-energy industries that don't use up limited resources are sustainable.
This is an odd statement. Don't most high energy industries use fossile fuels? Such fuels are non sustainable.
We are not yet at the point of such plentiful sustainable energy deployments that we can separate the notion of power utilization from source. High levels of utilization, in absence of specific plans to create sustainable energy supply, must be assumed to exploit non sustainable sources.
- Dylan16807 10y ago> We are not yet at the point of such plentiful sustainable energy deployments that we can separate the notion of power utilization from source. Sure we are, if we exclude processes that are only barely profitable and also locked in price. Anything else can pay the small premium to get non-fossil power. For a technology to be sustainable doesn't require that specific implementations buy green energy. If it's viable to do so, that's good enough.