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Those electric cars that need gas powered machines to mine all that lithium out of giant mines to construct the batteries that leave toxic chemicals behind are way more environmentally friendly than gas powered cars
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Double07により編集済み: 9/30/2020 10:30:56 PMWould you really rather invest in a car that spews carbon emission and depends on unreliable energy for the rest of its lifecycle, maybe more than a year or decade? An electric car does not pollute or need to rely on unreliable energy, once you have it, it will use electricity instead of gas for the rest of its duration.
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A lot of times the power for electric cars is from fuel burning same emissions different location And nuclear systems are rare [spoiler]nuclear is very safe now, surprisingly clean even with radioactive waste (which now is incredibly efficient and has less harmful rays )[/spoiler] Everything else that is clean is unreliable
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Isn’t it getting bigger or something?? I read that if all humans were together we(7.8 bil) could all live moderately comfortable in New Zealand so I think if sea levels do rise, we’ll be okay. And if not... To quote Ultron “When the Earth starts to settle, God throws a stone at it.”
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Only because the government refuses to start investing in better means of energy production. If we put solar panels on like 5-10% of US skyscrapers we'd have so much excess energy it would pay itself off essentially in like 10 to 20 years max. Compound that with more wind farms and we could be off fossil fuel sourced energy entirely in under generation
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Look at California. My aunt lives there and they are having rolling blackouts because of the inefficient solar cells that can't produce enough energy. I'm all for green energy when the technology gets there. Also, can we acknowledge that nuclear energy is the cheapest and the cleanest source?
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That's because the fossil fuel plants that provided most of the power shut down (and the solar grid isn't fully realized), the heat wave causing CA to use more for AC, and neighboring states don't have the excess to sell because of the heat wave causing people to use AC. California imports roughly a third of its power from AZ and NV. Which is why you don't concentrate them all in the same state.
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They don't. Under ideal circumstances they import a third of the power they use. That isn't there. They're transitionimg to more solar power and that grid isnt fully installed yet. Heck, before the *record* heat wave, their solar grid was working like a treat and provided substantially more power than required during peak daytime hours. Solar is actually far, far cheaper than fossil fuels for large scale energy production. Especially with how good we're getting at making panels without as many Rare Earth Elements. Heck, in June a team made a panel without any.