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That and the downsides to the sand battery. We don't need more biased new stories trying to promote everything as miraculously pure-good. Environmental concerns
by foxglacier 1y ago
That and the downsides to the sand battery. We don't need more biased new stories trying to promote everything as miraculously pure-good. Environmental concerns hardly matter for utility energy generation because if it's not cheaper, it will will either completely fail or be a tax on everyone if the government mandates it.
The obvious problem is it can only really be used for heating, not electricity. But heating is still a fine use when available.
- bodiekane 1y agoSurely the environmental concerns are the larger "tax on everyone". Fossil fuels appear cheap specifically because the benefits accumulate to the corporation extracting and selling them, while a substantial portion of the costs get unevenly distributed to random people who's homes get destroyed by hurricanes or wildfires as well as everyone having to run their air conditioners more.