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How are the propellers of wind turbines "renewable"? How are the solar panels "renewable"? How is the storage of this energy "renewable"? There's nothing renewa
by nikolay 3y ago
How are the propellers of wind turbines "renewable"? How are the solar panels "renewable"? How is the storage of this energy "renewable"? There's nothing renewable! With everybody being focused on "renewable" energy, we stopped the development of renewable nuclear technologies! Technologies like Radiant [0] get almost no attention!
Not to mention the visual pollution and the waste of farmland with the "renewable" energy sources!
[0]: https://www.radiantnuclear.com/ https://www.radiantnuclear.com/
- mock-possum 3y ago“Renewable” energy is commonly understood to refer to the fuel source
- nikolay 3y agoYeah, we're again and again victims of oversimplifications, marketing gimmicks, and pseudoscience. Energy cannot be "renewable" and we're creating mountains of stuff that's not recyclable at the moment! Yeah, let the future generations worry about all this - we want to be wasteful today and fund questionable schemes like "carbon offsets!"
- fnordpiglet 3y agoTurbines can be reconditioned. Solar panels retain about 80-90% of their efficiency after 25 years. The majority of materials in a solar panel (aluminum, glass, semiconductor materials) can be reclaimed and recycled. We haven’t stopped anything in the nuclear space. Small nuclear and other novel technologies get reasonable funding given their maturity and regulatory friction. Nuclear won’t take off until we get past the regulatory burden. We can’t sit around burning dinosaur juice hoping the government will modernize nuclear regulation. But we absolutely can pursue every avenue at once.