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I don’t even need to read the article to know that this is BS. They ran on renewables for their electricity, which is likely less than 50% of their _energy_ con
by jurgenaut23 3y ago
I don’t even need to read the article to know that this is BS. They ran on renewables for their electricity, which is likely less than 50% of their _energy_ consumption. As long as journalists don’t know the difference, we won’t be in a good place.
The real challenge isn’t quite to produce clean electricity (nuclear plants have excellent co2 footprints per kWh over their lifecycle if you don’t mind the very cumbersome and lethal waste they produce). The challenge is to reduce our global footprint, _including_ non-energy components such as biodiversity, soil and ocean preservation, forest and wilderness conservation, and all other planetary limits.
- boxed 3y agoI mean.. getting politicians to start taking the tech seriously and investing in solar/hydro/wind/nuclear is a HUGE challenge. It looks pretty grim in fact.