[artificialprint]

People forget that solar panels don't grow on the trees, battery packs especially have very large footprint and their manufacturing is resource intensive.

[ximeng]

From the article:

Solar panels and batteries depend on a global supply chain and take their own toll on the environment, but the life cycle emission of solar is ~40 gCO2/kWh, 25x lower than coal's 1,000 gCO2/kWh. And buying solar fuels innovation—such as alternatives to lithium-ion batteries now on the horizon.

[artificialprint]

Nuclear power has a minimal carbon footprint of around 15–50 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour (gCO2/KWh).

If you want to be a real hippy

[shadowpho]

Everything is relative though. Bikes also don’t grow on trees but they are several orders of magnitude more green then cars.

[m3kw9]

They should use potato’s as electricity source, they just need a couple hundred tone, as potato sort of grows on trees