Re:When life was literally full of crap
by eyelidlessness on Monday December 21, 2020 @11:18PM
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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.
A century from now will our descendants be cursing batteries and silicon PV panels? I suspect so.