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> renewables deployment will continue to be slower than new energy demand. Does renewable deployment cover new energy demand as well as the fossil fuels we are
by yodsanklai 7y ago
> renewables deployment will continue to be slower than new energy demand.
Does renewable deployment cover new energy demand as well as the fossil fuels we are supposed not to use anymore?
> renewables deployments are offsetting dirtier production methods
Renewables take their toll on the environment too. Batteries and solar panels need fossil fuels for their production, and the mining of rare metals is an extremely polluting industry (and often delocalized in countries with little regulations).
> If you look at the charts
The charts I looked at suggested that there will be both an energy and an environmental crisis.
It's very hard to argue over this topic as all we can do is cite experts. Maybe I'm attracted to the most pessimistic authors? where to look to have the scientific consensus on this matter?
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- xyzzyz 7y agoAnd, of course, to build significant acreages of solar farms, you need to destroy ecosystems already existing there. Consider, for example, the case of the desert tortoises that were blocking the construction of the Ivanpah Solar Plant. The company building it had to spend over $20 million to have people literally walk over the area to find and relocate every desert tortoise living there. This was in the middle of the desert a few dozen miles south of Las Vegas.