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> disrupt society and the technology decays and degrades fast. This applies to every electricity generation method except small-scale hydro, and maybe small p
by tuatoru 5y ago
> disrupt society and the technology decays and degrades fast.
This applies to every electricity generation method except small-scale hydro, and maybe small pockets of coal.
Everything else needs advanced materials manufacturing - high-tech steels, fluids and ceramics for oil drilling and fracking, rare earth mining for magnets for wind turbines, all kinds of crazy stuff for PV.
Small-scale hydro and small-scale coal can't support society.