Solar is highly unreliable, requires endless mining of non renewable materials, takes up insane amounts of space to make the same power as any other method, requires endless manufacturing (and disposal) of batteries that are also made with mined non renewable, toxic materials that end up in landfill, and the cost of transmission infrastructure needed are in the trillions.
Nuclear as the backbone, topped up with solar, is the only realistic way to the fabled “net zero”.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
We are pivoting, we already have the largest uptake of solar in the world - if I recall correctly - and it’s only ramping up further with the recent battery subsidies.
The reason why it’s not covered more in the mainstream media is because it is beholden to fossil fuel interests, and they want to minimise Labor’s successes in order to try and weaken them ahead of the next election.