Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How they actually actually do.
Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How they actually actually do.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Mining for the rare earth elements used in solar panels is pretty ugly, too. But once they’re taken out they can be reused, it’s not like coal or oil where you use it over and it’s gone forever.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s why the actual solution is degrowth, not a technology of any kind. Nuclear is better that coal, renewables are better than nuclear, but none are good.
Uranium and rare earth elements mining are cause of massive biodiversity reductions, political destabilisations, wars, and they have to be transformed, transported and disposed (and we use a lot of fossil energies for that). So no it’s not green, it’s just less brown (and the direct effect are mostly sensible in third world countries, so nobody cares in the first world).
Moreover, nuclear and renewables never caused a reduction of coal in a global perspective. They just added themselves to the mix.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 22 hours ago
We should ban petrol except for ambulances and fire engines
MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Ambulances and fire engines are probably an example of a top choices to convert to ev. They don’t drive far at all and they are parked at a central location most of the time.
Also puts incentives to install solar panels at hospitals and fire stations.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 15 hours ago
We should be banning, or more accurately, phasing out combustion engines for all vehicles including government and emergency vehicles. If anything should be EVs these should be it. Also consider that American fire trucks are massively oversized compared to ones in the rest of the world. They don’t need to be that big, and thus more compact European-style ones could easily be replaced with electric equivalents.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 10 hours ago
You can make a solar panel out of recycled materials or without destroying the planet