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>This is what people who talk about carbon neutral and environmentally friendly energy fail to grasp. they don't. >There is energy out there that isn't oil, b
by rex_lupi 5y ago
>This is what people who talk about carbon neutral and environmentally friendly energy fail to grasp.
they don't.
>There is energy out there that isn't oil, but it requires more disruption to natural ecosystems than burning oil, and it is far less energy dense
Again, that's true only when you believe paving the natural landscape with solar panels is the only environment friendly and sustainable source of energy in existence.
If you think it's okay to continue use oil until we achieve the technological capabilities to build a Dyson sphere (assuming Earth's fossil fuel reserves are unlimited), I highly doubt humanity will survive that long.
- betwixthewires 5y ago> they don't. You say that, but then... > Again, that's true only when you believe paving the natural landscape with solar panels is the only environment friendly and sustainable source of energy in existence. There is only one source of energy on this earth. No matter what you build to produce energy, that energy comes from the sun, which means some surface area on earth must be dedicated to it, which means some natural process and landscape must be severely hindered. Whether it is damming up rivers or paving some desert or clear cutting a windmill farm or whatever it is, to get the energy we need you have to destroy some landscape, and what you have to destroy is a function of how much solar energy lands on a square meter of surface.