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> Do you produce electricity without CO2 emissions? There's multiple ways deployed on a mass-scale, and hopefully by 2035 those will provide the vast majority
by dtech 4y ago
> Do you produce electricity without CO2 emissions?
There's multiple ways deployed on a mass-scale, and hopefully by 2035 those will provide the vast majority of electricity. So yes.
- abdellah123 4y agoCO2 emissions are one way of polluting the environment. Nuclear trash is another. Is there a way of producing enough energy without pollution?
- LeonidasXIV 4y agoWind, water, solar, geothermal energy…
- abdellah123 4y agoProducing isn't actually enough, let's talk about the full cycle. Even if you produce it cleanly, you'll need to store it + production of the turbins ... And battery production (and mining for materials) pollutes the environment as well. So let's not compare only parts of the system ... let's be real here
- ben_w 4y agoPeople are already working on all of those things. Even with coal electricity, electric cars have lower total-lifetime CO2 emissions. Also, the more low-hanging fruit we fix, the more time we have left for the hard stuff.
- LeonidasXIV 4y agoMost of these things are one time investments (plus maintenance), which you need for non-renewable energies just as well (and one might argue that building oil rigs and refineries and transporting the fuel is more CO2 intensive than windmills and power cables).
- sofixa 4y agoNot all pollution is created equal. Small amounts of nuclear waste stored in concentrated isolated locations doesn't impact anyone, meanwhile CO2 pollution is impacting the whole world extremely negatively. > Is there a way of producing enough energy without pollution Can't think of a single energy generation method that doesn't result in at least some pollution from raw material extraction, byproducts or remains after the end of the lifecycle. Maybe geothermal, but I don't know what goes in a geothermal plant.
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