Re:Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year
by constantcrying on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:43PM
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If my optimistic math is right you need around a dozen solar pannels per person. If a third of energy is supposes to come from solar around a billion sollar pannels are needed. If you don't think longevity and recyclability matters on that scale, I think you should reconsider what "sustainable" means.
Re:Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year
by pfdietz on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:58PM
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My point is that it's not an argument against renewables per se. If industrial society powered by nuclear (or unicorn farts) is sustainable, it implies recycling is either unnecessary or solvable.
Re:Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year
by constantcrying on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:14PM
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I think environmental impact by producing billions of pannels of landfill is actually an argument against solar.
I am not against solar, by the way, but it is obviously an important consideration.
Re:Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year
by pfdietz on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:34PM
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You are selective in your concern. Is industrial society as a whole ok? It will produce much more waste that needs recycling that solar/wind will. If it is ok, then why would solar/wind not be?
This smells of bad faith argumentation.
Re:Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year
by constantcrying on Thursday June 08, 2023 @01:18AM
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>You are selective in your concern.
No.
> It will produce much more waste that needs recycling that solar/wind will.
And that is bad.
> it is ok, then why would solar/wind not be?
Not at all the question. Two things can be bad at the same time.
Also, the materials going into renewable infrastructure powering society will be small compared to materials going into society as a whole. If recycling can be done on the latter, it could be done on the former. If it can't be done on the latter, the former wouldn't matter. And the recycling on general materials is a problem that comes up even in a nuclear-powered society.