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by dubcanada 2131 days ago
Not fully sure what dead trees have to do with anything?

Can you expand on what you mean by dead-trees are needed for nuclear and hydro?

And can you expand on what you mean by solar and wind are useless?

Based on what I've seen EROEI seems to be for wind, solar not so much due to product costs, but wind seems to be above the 7 threshold.

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Dead trees = coal, oil and gas.

Solar and wind are not something you can decide when you want it and the EROEI is only ok if you subvention the manufacturing and/or grid with dead-trees, when you look at it from a system perspective they are utterly useless.

The numbers only look good through the debt lens.

Both solar and wind have very short lifespans.