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There's an interesting point here on the resource intensiveness of creating 'renewable' energy itself (ie. windmill costs). I share the authors concern here th
by Tiktaalik 7y ago
There's an interesting point here on the resource intensiveness of creating 'renewable' energy itself (ie. windmill costs).
I share the authors concern here that doing the exact same thing we're doing now but handwave electric is not going to get us to where we're going to need to be. We need to be smarter about how we use energy and our resources and use less.
For example shifting our entire automobile based transportation infrastructure to the exact same thing but electric is not nearly as impactful on lowering CO2 emissions taking those cars off the road via better public transit and land use that enables active transportation (ie. walking/cycling).
- soperj 7y agoEven if people used electric bikes instead of electric cars, it's way more impactful on lowering CO2, and still creates a better land use proposition (ie: less need for parking, less need for roads, less traffic jams, things can be closer together which leads to less need to go as far for people who aren't using electric bikes)
- XorNot 7y agoDecoupling transportation from fuel source via electricity makes the problem a lot more tractable. It's a lot easier to regulate and change a few hundred generators then hundreds of millions of individual ICEs. Modern coal-fired powerplants are substantially more efficient then car internal combustion engines.
- brlewis 7y agoOr reduce commuting through advancements in remote work