Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 7 months agoIt didn’t reduce the inefficiency though. You still have 50% of that power being lost, which means you need 50% more renewable generation. It’s wasteful.
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 7 months ago
That’s the good thing about renewable energy, we can waste some without it being a big deal.
Efficiency was the wrong word, but I can’t find the right one.
HubertManne@kbin.social 7 months ago
um not really. Renewables aren't completely free. Solar panels, turbines, etc. They have to be replaced. with 50% efficiency loss your talking about twice as much mining and manufacturing of the renewable infrastructure. That produces carbon and waste like anything else and more use of limited materials.
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 7 months ago
Baby steps friend. We try things incrementally
HubertManne@kbin.social 7 months ago
um. the direction we want to go is max efficiency in those baby steps though. Not worse efficiency. Its part of reduce in reduce, reuse, recycle and its first for a very big reason.