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Money and price is a really poor information vessel for this kind of decision making, as they are disconnected from the actual physical flows involved. Renewab

by enqk 3y ago

Money and price is a really poor information vessel for this kind of decision making, as they are disconnected from the actual physical flows involved. Renewables require a lot of minerals compared to any centralized energy production facility, as they are really diffuse, and also they compete with the surface we need to grow our food and live. This is absolutely not present in current prices.

ben_w 3y ago
> they compete with the surface we need to grow our food and live They can, but they don't need to. Rooftops, extra shade for car parks (or walkways), deserts, gaps between directions of the same road[0]… in principal, if we were solving this together at a global scale rather than a bunch of local competing interests, we can supply well over 100% of current demand just by PV without needing any farm land to be used in the process. [0] https://www.google.com/maps/@39.740634,-119.0682473,2221m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@39.740634,-119.0682473,2221m/da...