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> but investing in solar, wind, geothermal, etc works too if we're serious about it. 2 questions: Don't huge windfarms affect the local climate and wildlife?
by umvi 7y ago
> but investing in solar, wind, geothermal, etc works too if we're serious about it.
2 questions:
Don't huge windfarms affect the local climate and wildlife? Afaik we don't know the long term effects of massive sustained wind farms.
Have we solved the solar storage problem yet?
I read something about massive battery plants and/or high speed flywheel energy storage, but as far as I know this is still a problem.
I vote we go all in on nuclear just to quickly remove coal, and then slowly phase out nuclear with better, low-impact renewables.
- avmich 7y ago> we don't know the long term effects of massive sustained wind farms. Yes, and we should pay (with money) more attention to study that. However we shouldn't/can't stop because of that and wait till we'll know more certainly - in general; some decisions need to be made early, and this question is an example. > Have we solved the solar storage problem yet? We have a variety of ways to store energy, and we're getting better with it with time, so forecasts here are optimistic. This is still a problem, but, again, we may move forward with other parts while we improving on batteries. > I vote we go all in on nuclear I think with nuclear we're uncapping worst case scenarios. This is harder to calculate, so I'm hesitant.