I like when they slap back with "Dumbass, we just put solar panels on everyone's roof!"
If there was enough solar radiation on a roof to heat a home in winter, then we wouldn't need to heat our homes in winter.
There are renewables that can absolutely heat millions of homes. In Canada, Quebec and Manitoba have cheap hydroelectric power such that many people have electric heat and no reason to change it. Other areas of the world could do the exact same thing, except one thing.
People want to pretend you can get industrial grade power generation without causing some unsightly environmental damage, and that's wrong. You need space, and you need material, and you need to do a lot of things just to make sure you're not dying of the cold. Once we can get over that idea we can start making decisions as to what the best choice is.
Monarque@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
There's still hydro and potentially the use of burning plant based fuels, those plant based fuels are only questionably green...
And there's nuclear!
I will dissent from the typical wolfballs party line because I am to some degree an environmentalist.
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I will too, because I'm an engineer, and it's jobs and exports. There's no need to tarnish sound technology just because a few morons supporr it.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Yes, yes, yes to all. Plant based fuels displace forests, so its a difficult fuel. Unless we are talking algae, but that's a really limited crop.
I think most people are environmentalists, but define it different. Conservatives are against Net Zero, because they are not convinced historical trend of 1 C warming over 50 years will continue for 100 years, and/or is a big concern, to destroy and rebuild global infrastructure. Sea level rising ? Don't build on the coast. More wildfires, droughts etc ? No convincing proof it will increase. Cheaper to not build in such areas than rejig the whole world on 100% renewable.
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
There are too many people, and unevenly distributed. We don't want to spread that unevenness around to the parts of the world without a problem, simply let the overpopulous parts of the world face the consequences of their decisions.