• umad_cause_ibad@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    No, give me an option that doesn’t make a part of the world uninhabitable or increases climate change.

    That just a stupid comparison and is there any reason why we can’t also do wind solar thermal hydro also? It’s fossil fuels or nuclear and that’s it huh?

    • Astrealix@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I never said we can’t do also wind, solar, thermal, and hydro; in fact we have to do all of them. But, hydro isn’t possible in most places (and also makes “a part of the world uninhabitable” too — look at how much the Three Gorges Dam displaced, for example), nor is geothermal. And wind and solar are inconsistent — great as part of it, but they can’t be the entirety of the grid, unless you want the entire country to go dark on a cloudy day, cuz we simply can’t make batteries store that much.

      • Norah - She/They
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        1 year ago

        I get so frustrated when I see people recommend hydro as a solution to climate change. Human intervention to fresh water systems is still a major ecological disaster. It’s like cutting off one hand to save the other.