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Also: how is using more electricity bad? I live in Iceland where we almost solely produce electricity with hydro and geothermals. I drive a Tesla which reduces
by Beltiras 5y ago
Also: how is using more electricity bad? I live in Iceland where we almost solely produce electricity with hydro and geothermals. I drive a Tesla which reduces our gasoline consumption. There's a lot of built in assumptions that ignore nuance that matters a great deal in the final analysis.
- northwest65 5y agoAccording to wiki the Kárahnjúkar Dam took 4000 tons of steel, and flooded 440,000 acres, and presumably consumed an ungodly amount on concrete. Presumably you can't keep expanding that sort of infrastructure forever.
- Beltiras 5y agoHydro and geothermal have non-zero emissions of course. They last for a very long time thou. It's a bit like buying an electric car. The emissions might look bad at the outset but you come out ahead really quickly.
- northwest65 5y agoYeah, I too live in a country that uses a fair amount of hydro. Low in service emissions are nice, but on the flip side hydro kills an insane amount of animals and permanently destroys their habitats. We have geothermal too, but nothing making the sort of power the hydro does. The only thing that is clear is that using more electricity could be accepted as 'bad' by many important metrics.
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