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Also if we're planning for the long term; wind and solar sound like bad options for going into major global catastrophes like large asteroid hits or a nuclear w
by roenxi 2y ago
Also if we're planning for the long term; wind and solar sound like bad options for going into major global catastrophes like large asteroid hits or a nuclear war. It'd be better as a matter of principle to be using systems that can cope with massive climate disruptions. I like to bring up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer - an event like that will happen sooner or later and it'd be pretty rough if we've all gone too heavy with solar.
One of those hopefully-you-don't-need-it concerns but it is starting to become a more pressing with the uptick in wars and unrest that seems to be going on.
- Pooge 2y agoMore[1] reading material. The volcanic winter of 536 made it one of the worst years for humanity. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter
- SiempreViernes 2y agoSorry, how is having a few, very delicate, power sources more resilient than an abundance of mechanically simple and widely distributed power sources?
- roenxi 2y agoThey work if light is massively cut down for 12 months. And can be fortified to the nth degree.
- pfdietz 2y agoThis has to be the most hilariously desperate anti-renewable argument yet.
- roenxi 2y agoIn what way is it anti-renewable?
- pfdietz 2y ago"Renewables (or, at least, PV) are bad because they won't work after a K/Pg-level asteroid impact."
- roenxi 2y agoWhy would that make them bad? They're still good. It just isn't clever to rely only on one source of power. It is like chicken being a good thing to have in the fridge. That doesn't make a sack of potatoes in the cupboard bad. On a 1:500 year time horizon we know there are threats that dim the sun (possibly quite a bit shorter now that nuclear weapons are on the table and we seem to be incapable of dealing with that threat productively - the number of actors with nukes is growing). Planning for that isn't anti-renewable, it is just cautious. And nobody was talking about K-Pg events. You'll notice the years quoted were all after the Roman Empire was founded.