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Originally Posted by LuckyLuke01
if we stopped using coal today we would have it sorted in like 2 weeks.
you aren't looking at the big picture here man. WE are killing the planet while fat cats eat at the mining profits.
just look at aus man... it's ****ing HOT AS DOGS BALLS here like 10 months of the year.... why THE **** are we not using solar? because mining has infected our government and it perfectly runs the country.
dude, it doesn't work that way and solar needs very specific conditions in order to be efficient
coal is also nearly half of all electricity production, there's simply no replacing that over two week, maybe 2 decades
one of the biggest problems with solar is it's used to virtue signal and not used efficiently, for example if you have solar panels on your roof, it's only going to be efficient putting them on a specific side of the roof but studies have overwhelmingly shown that people who install them are doing it more for the show than anything real because they almost always are on the side of the house facing the road regardless of whether or not they'd lose 33% of their production on that side
my high school has the largest solar power facilities in all of new england
it produces less than 40% of their own power needs during the day time and cost them an absolute fortune in buying, installing and maintaining it, they literally need to hire a goat and lama guy to bring his animals by to graze it regularly
largest plant in all of new england, it's literally the size of a corn field, only efficient enough to produce enough power generation for about 200 people and only during the day time
school would have been far better off from a financial perspective to not do it but these schools have endowments larger than most colleges and doing that gets them attention, raises the profile and helps them compete in the rat race of prep school prestige
i love solar, but it really does require very specific technology, battery storage and ideal location to not operate at a massive loss - most people who have solar panels on their house will never recoup the money spent on buying them, especially since they are most efficient when nobody is home and very little power is consumed
nuclear, that's what we need