Ducky181 t1_iqvb9xl wrote
Reply to comment by kidicarus89 in The US's largest ever combined wind+solar/battery electricity plant has opened in Oregon with a generating/storage capacity of 350MW/120MWh by lughnasadh
- The world electricity consumption is only 22% of the world total energy consumption. The building of more solar and wind farms won't result in the required level of reduction in emissions over the long run unless we figure out a low-cost way to use solar and wind energy to make steel, concrete, chemicals, and the creation of highly dense energy for long-distance transportation. The only source that can fulfil the high energy and heat needs necessary to address these aforementioned problems is nuclear power.
- The majority of solar cells and high level batteries are made within China, with questionable labour standards. We have already learned in the recent Ukraine war on how damaging it is to rely on another state with world view's that are highly contradiction to ours.
- The world uses equivalent to 140,000 TWH of total energy each year. In order to produce this much energy we need about 1,363,154km2 of land mass dedicated purely to solar energy production. This is twice as large as the total landmass of Turkey, and France, and almost the size of Iran. These solar cells and batteries need to be replaced every twenty to thirty year's, and contain a plethora of dangerous elements with no foreseeable recycling option.
MiguelKoch t1_iqw9hcd wrote
>Unless we discover a way to make steel, concrete, chemicals, and the generation and storage of high level energy for aircraft, long-distance transport.
This isn't even a sentence.
And "renewables can't power planes therefore the solution is nuclear" seems to have a pretty big logic leap, unless you are suggesting sticking a couple nuclear reactors in a commercial plane.
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