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Re:When life was literally full of crap by gumby on Monday December 21, 2020 @08:20PM (#25501816)
The automobile, today the scourge of the environment, heating the earth and blackening the buildings, was once hailed as the saviour of cities by bringing cleanliness and purity to roads and the air.

A century from now will our descendants be cursing batteries and silicon PV panels? I suspect so.

Re:When life was literally full of crap by eyelidlessness on Monday December 21, 2020 @11:18PM (#25502792)
As they should be. Not that they aren’t meaningful stepping stones. But energy storage and delayed usage has inherent side effects, and a lot of modern solutions have a bill that will come due. And that’s not just the nature of the materials used, but also the economics of their disposal. We don’t have a depleted heavy metals disposal program, we have “recycling” programs that ship hazardous waste to human processing dumping grounds.