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by nightski 1461 days ago
I'm not buying that all the solar panels, batteries, and grid infrastructure will produce little waste. Do you have any references to studies this or are you just going by gut feeling?
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What specific waste is causing your trepidation? Solar and wind have most of their impact from mundane things like glass, aluminum, and steel. But enormous amounts of these are produced for the rest of the economy (annual world production of steel is nearly 2 gigatonnes). None of them present an insuperable obstacle to a global economy that could function indefinitely.
Last year we had the first ever permanent storage open. If it really opened, perhaps it was delayed again. Because storing nuclear waste long term is not a solved problem aside from the fact that uranium isn't endless either. Deconstructed nuclear plants also need to be cleaned up.