Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says

• Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are historical accounts of volcanic activity blocking the sky, I think in Europe, for a few years. For all we know it was the whole planet. That would definitely disrupt solar energy collection without being an extinction level event.

  Diversity is a genuine factor of fossil fuel free energy generation.

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  • kaffiene@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Literally no sun for years would mean no crops which means everyone and all their animals would be dead

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    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yea, it would be pretty rough.

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      • revisable677@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Mildly annoying

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• The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  then I think we have bigger problems

  Care to point them out? As I’ve said, and expect to be common knowledge on a (I would expect) scientifically leaning community, the dinosaurs weren’t killed by the meteor, their death was caused by the blacking out of the sun. You have access to energy, you can make air filters, grow food, purify water. If you don’t have energy, then you die.

  Regardless, this is a deflection from the main point, that was merely an extreme example, even volcanic eruptions could cause huge disruptions if you depend too much on solar power.

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  • kaffiene@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Care to point them out? The fact all our crops would die is a big one

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    • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t need sunlight to grow crops, you just need energy; which in this scenario would require an energy source that is not the sun.

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      • kaffiene@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, that’s hardly going to be a global solution. But whatevs this discussion is devolving into the rediculous

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