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by HappyDreamer
2074 days ago
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> [solar panels] creates a large amount of greenhouse gasses. Sounds misleading to me. A quick websearch and I found that currently they seem to be 10 x better than oil and coal etc: > Making solar or photovoltaic cells requires potentially toxic heavy metals such as lead, mercury and cadmium. It even produces greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, that contribute to global warming. Still, the researchers found that if people switched from conventional fossil fuel-burning power plants to solar cells, air pollution would be cut by roughly 90 percent. Although manufacturing solar cells requires heavy metals, the researchers noted that coal and oil also contain heavy metals, which get released during combustion https://www.livescience.com/2324-solar-power-greenhouse-emis... > Mining the material to produce them ... I think everything is off the table then, also your laptop or tablet -- websearch for "minerals laptop environment" for example. It seems you don't like solar panels? |
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I never said that. I'm saying that based on AOC's 100% plan, pretty much everything is off the table, meaning that the plan needs to be revised. I plan to have 30kw of solar panels in my next home and a large collection of LifePo4 batteries that also have a dependency on strip mining. I also plan to do some of my own mining (drilling, blasting) for zinc and silver.