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Re:Molten Salt Reactors by jillesvangurp on Sunday July 14, 2019 @02:50AM (#20432070)
Nope, simply untrue. Cars use lithium ion batteries mainly for their energy density. For grid storage, other batteries and ways of storing energy are feasible and probably a lot cheaper as well. Wikipedia has a nice overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage#Grid-orien...

The wild life impact of solar is relatively minor compared to burning coal, intensive farming, and all the other things we do. We'd need to only cover a relatively small amount of land with solar to produce what we need. And ironically some of the most suitable land for this would be deserts that have relatively little wild life to begin with. Of course the impact of wiping out coal, gas, and petrol usage would be enormously positive.

Windmills do indeed kill some birds. Yet, these things seem to have barely any impact on e.g. the seagull populations in places like Denmark that have a ridiculous amount of wind mills.

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