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by survirtual 640 days ago
Hydrogen fused by the sun, which generates the energy both solar panels and wind power utilizes, are not renewable by this definition.

By the provided definition, solar and wind are non-renewable. They are just sun/fusion energy collectors, and the sun is not regenerating its fuel...

...it just has A LOT of it. Sort of like another fuel available to use, called Uranium and Thorium, and every other fissionable radioactive element in the entire universe.

By the time we run out of nuclear fuel, we will be making gravity-confined fusion reactors with shells made of solar panels, aka artificial suns for energy.

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They thought of that. It is defined on a human timescale.