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Solar requires way more concrete and a bunch of mined rare earth minerals, nickel and cobalt, and is not green. Wind power requires an enormous amount of epoxy
by djha-skin 3y ago
Solar requires way more concrete and a bunch of mined rare earth minerals, nickel and cobalt, and is not green.
Wind power requires an enormous amount of epoxy and the windmills wear out and then you have to throw an enormous amount of epoxy away and it is not green.
Storing energy using batteries from the above sources requires an enormous amount of nickel and cobalt mind out of the Earth by third world countries and is not green.
Fusion power requires mining lithium and is not green.
Nuclear power requires changing people's minds and when it does fail it causes two-headed fish. While perhaps green, it is not politically feasible at this time.
Here's an idea. Take public transit instead of using that Tesla that required a bunch of imported rare earth minerals from sweatshops in China and microchips from Taiwan -- which may or may not be available to us in the future in this geopolitical climate -- and lithium and cobalt from death trap mines down in Peru and Africa.
Burn natural gas in your stove instead of electricity which is generally coal-fired, or if it isn't coal fired, it comes from so solar and wind and is therefore not green.
My point is that the original paragraph stands. It's going to get worse before it gets better and no one wants to believe this.
- sandworm101 3y ago>> Fusion power requires mining lithium and is not green. Where can I buy this machine?
- klysm 3y agoI hate this term of 'green'. It's conflating so many different axes of environmental effects, which is sometimes what we care about but it removes any nuance immediately. I find usually it distracts from one of the primary issues: carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoI feel like you're worried a little too much about having to tolerate some waste here and there and not worried enough about global changes to biosphere function. Yeah, having mine next to your house sucks, we need to get better at managing that kind of thing. But it's a local suck. It's in a totally different category than having the climate shift into a mode that no longer supports our food crops, for instance.
- pfdietz 3y ago> Solar requires way more concrete and a bunch of mined rare earth minerals, nickel and cobalt, and is not green. Wow, you've concatenated a string of lies into a single sentence. What a density of mendacity! Solar requires none of those things, and is quite "green". Solar doesn't even need concrete for footings -- steel earth anchors, or even laying modules flat on the ground, are both practical and cheaper.