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frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

They use steel more effectively, but use other resources like wind, land, labor, and electronics less effectively, and all of which are harder to recycle

Wind is a renewable resource. Saying wind is not easy to recycle is incoherent.

As for less labour-efficient, I’d’ve thought that’s part of solarpunk: being less capital-intensive/more labour-intensive.

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growsomethinggood@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sonori is completely right here, and it feels in bad faith to critique the semantics of their comment rather than the substance of them.

One of the things that is difficult about solarpunk is that there is a huge divide between where we currently are and where we want/need to be. Smaller turbines for a more distributed power grid is a part of a great future to look towards! But it’s not the reality of our power demands now, which necessitate larger turbines and more steel production to meet any of our climate goals. Speaking coherently through that divide can really lead to mismatched expectations and miscommunications.

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SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Livestock aren’t an efficient use of land in the first place, and you can absolutely graze around turbines, at least according to this: www.windenergy.org.nz/…/how-to-host-a-windfarm

It appears there are even advantages to crop farming under turbines: agupdate.com/…/article_bb057e6c-e58b-5990-b4d5-62…

Obviously can’t do any aerial crop dusting around turbines.

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