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Re:First tunnel to a magma chamber could unleash unlimited e... by ben_w on Sunday January 07, 2024 @05:32AM (#38900064)
Cells don't need to, as they can be… "renewed", you might say.
Re:First tunnel to a magma chamber could unleash unlimited e... by ekianjo on Sunday January 07, 2024 @08:42PM (#38907290)
They don't get to be renewed with zero pollution.
Re:First tunnel to a magma chamber could unleash unlimited e... by ben_w on Monday January 08, 2024 @04:34AM (#38909832)
All life processes produce waste that is dangerous to that which created it, yet we do not call photosynthesis "non renewable" despite oxygen being toxic to obligate anaerobes.

Likewise while PV has non-zero impact, the impact is sufficiently small and of a nature that basically doesn't matter.

Fossil fuels are about a hundred times more polluting than volcanoes[0][1], so a factor of about one hundred in reduced emissions per unit of useful output compared to setting things on fire takes you down to the environmental impact of one part of geology.

[0] at least the CO2 is, but what matters for PV is everything else except the CO2 because in a world powered by renewables all the energy used in production doesn't produce CO2 in the first place; volcanoes do also release sulphur compounds etc.

[1] there is a certain degree of irony that one of the memes used by climate change deniers is to precisely invert this ratio.