• usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    there are size issues with batteries and amount of energy that can be stored. These things do not scale in a linear manner and there are hard physical limits on what is actually possible

    • crispy_lol [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      so? read the last part of my previous comment. we may not be able to do with renewable exactly what we are currently doing with fossil fuels but that doesn't mean we can't convert our system to one that can.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        hospitals for example require a constant stream of energy that cannot be interupted there are many such important systems that for reasons to do with human lives cannot be stopped and started depending on how sunny/windy it is. The requirements for these alone outstip battery technologies ability to handle

        Also far more people die per watt for fossil fuels than nuclear energy. by a very significant factor

        https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

        • crispy_lol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I'm willing to have FF / nuclear power for things like hospitals if it really is not possible to ever power them renewably. that doesn't make renewable sources invalid.

          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I was never saying we shouldn't do everything we can on renewables I was just saying that as they alone aren't enough of the options available nuclear is the clear frontrunner by a wide margin.

            renewable energy is important but it's not enough on it's own