POW only ruins the planet if you're using non-renewables / non-nuclear. It's not intrinsic.

quibble on "you're". It's a shared planet, so it gets ruined if enough mining is done on non-renewables. Most people complaining aren't mining at all.

Was this a useful comment? "You're" is just a stand-in for "people are". The second person is a fairly common way to structure such a sentence.

Sure, you can argue that nuclear (or whatever) is a better way to produce energy than most/all others currently known, but that's a very low bar to clear.

There are more and less sucky ways to produce energy, but let's be clear: all of them suck to some degree. There is no type of energy production where the mere act of producing that energy is a net positive.

Then the argument turns to whether or not the gains from proof of wasted energy-type systems outweigh the drawbacks of producing the required energy -- even if that energy is produced in the least sucky way. I'm firmly in the no camp.

Which is where most energy is derived from, so it's ruining the planet.