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by spicybright 1607 days ago
It reminds me of solar panels on cars. It sounds great if you don't think too hard about it, but a highschool physics course can easily prove how completely useless it would be in practice.

Ideas like these end up being nothing but virtue signaling, whether people know it or not.

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Practically all of our "green" solutions rely on the fact that their energy-intensive manufacturing is done somewhere with lots of cheap (and polluting) energy sources.

Show me a wind-powered lithium battery factory and I'll change my mind.