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Originally Posted by SailinAway
While Woodsy and XCR-700 do well to remind us of the environmental problems with current alternative energy sources, we still all need to get on board with the effort to support these other sources. The sooner we do so, the sooner scientists will have the support they need to improve existing energy technologies and discover new ones. The current imperfect state of our knowledge and technology is not a reason to condemn or avoid electrification; it's a reason to support it so we can move forward. This should have been done decades ago.
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At this very moment in time, electrification as its happening in the US is not better/greener than a middle east petro solution, its just a different set of problems.
Now make no mistake about it, land based crude oil extraction is cleaner and safer than ocean based drilling, and middle east crude oil based in sand is easier than pulling oil out from many parts of the US, but ALL lithium battery technology and solar panels are BAD business!
If you want a clean power example, you can look to Iceland who is using geothermal to create hydrogen, this is about as green as you will get today!
New nuclear power plants could be a very big step forward soon, but they will be VERY expensive and should not be entrusted to business that run them for profit, because just as soon as you start talking dollars and profit, corners will be cut. They also should not be build any where near populated areas, not because of fear of failure, but because of the threat of being targets for madmen like we have seen with Putin and Ukraine.
Sorry, Green is complicated,,,