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The future is stupid...
submitted 4 years ago by useless_aether from magaimg.net
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[–]Vigte 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (4 children)
But if you all just shut up and eat bugs and learn to live with less - the world will live! /s
The second any green-technology becomes economically profitable vs current methods, it will be everywhere.
[–]yetanotherone_sigh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (3 children)
You should drive around in the Pacific NW. About 1 in every 10 vehicles are electric. Most are Teslas and Nissan Leafs.
[–]Vigte 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago* (2 children)
I'm talking about businesses (as the primary source of the pollution problem) using green-tech when it directly lowers their overhead costs, not individuals.
[–]yetanotherone_sigh 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago* (1 child)
Ah, understood. I read somewhere that the cost per KWH of new green energy (wind turbines, solar panels) is fast approaching the cost per KWH of a new coal power plant. The only problem is storing the energy, or having enough of it when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. The obvious answer is to pump water uphill into man-made reservoirs when you have excess energy, and generate electricity with that water when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. It's essentially a grid-scale battery. It's just expensive to have to build all that storage at scale.
Nuclear is still the best long-term option if you are shooting to not burn coal or natural gas. We just need to get over the political hurdle of reprocessing the waste or storing it for long term.
[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
Yeah a gravity battery, I think it's called. They're pretty efficient.
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