Comment on One of the UK's largest solar farms is now online and can power 20,000 homes

smpl@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Elleo@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This time to feed its infinte hunger for energy.

  UK electricity demand is down 20% since 2012, and continuing on a downward trend.

  Changes away from more polluting energy sources to meet this reduced demand is a good thing.

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  • smpl@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We don’t share a common premise for a discussion. To you the industrial society is a constant and you think replacing nature with industrial energy production is a good trade. To me nature is a constant and I think replacing industrial society with more nature is a good trade.

    Global electricity demand is expected to rise at a faster rate over the next three years, growing by an average of 3.4% annually through 2026.

    www.iea.org/reports/…/executive-summary

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    • Elleo@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is replacing agricultural fields. Solar panels allow for a drastic increase in biodiversity over crop monocultures. It’s an improvement on the metrics you care about as well as in energy production.

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      • Elleo@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Also, don’t assume my position on industrialised society.

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      • smpl@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s a myth though. No numbers I know of suggest earths population and our demand of food is declining. What will happen is that the agricultural land replaced with a solarfarm is going to be set up somewhere else at the cost of nature.

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    • Elleo@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also, don’t assume my position on industrialised society.

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