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The environmental impacts of wind and solar are nonzero but absolutely miniscule compared to fossil fuel extraction. Base load is a concern but not unsolvable e
by tootie 1y ago
The environmental impacts of wind and solar are nonzero but absolutely miniscule compared to fossil fuel extraction. Base load is a concern but not unsolvable especially as scaling batteries becomes easier. Most importantly, solar + battery is already deployed at scale and is now the cheapest to install and operate in the real world. We are also close to being able to scale geothermal as renewable base load.
Fusion is great but it's still years away at least from a single viable commercial reactor. We need solutions to be deployed ten years ago. Waiting for Godot isn't an option.