Excellent post, thank you. We can't eat solar panels and they don't produce any energy at night. Without battery storage, which is prohibitively expensive, the power they produce is weak and intermittent compared to hydro, gas, oil and nuclear. I say this having lived off grid on solar for nearly 40 years. Sacrificing our farmlands and forests to host industrial scale unreliable renewables is foolish. We need to start using the "nuclear" word if we really want carbon free power sources. Meanwhile, the organic blood of our ancient plants and animals (oil) has powered us for over a century and can do so for another century. CO2 is plant food and all of life on earth would die without it. There are much smarter ways to power us into the future than going back to the days of sailing ships and sealing wax.
We also live off grid - with 5 solar panels as our primary source - and I love the fact that we use about 1/20th the amount of electricity of a "normal" house. And- we built the systems, so I know how to fix them 😁.
Residents of Serbia are fighting the prospect of lithium mining in their backyards right now...
Like with so many of these issues, the urban population centers see all the perceived "benefits" and none of the drawbacks.
Excellent post, thank you. We can't eat solar panels and they don't produce any energy at night. Without battery storage, which is prohibitively expensive, the power they produce is weak and intermittent compared to hydro, gas, oil and nuclear. I say this having lived off grid on solar for nearly 40 years. Sacrificing our farmlands and forests to host industrial scale unreliable renewables is foolish. We need to start using the "nuclear" word if we really want carbon free power sources. Meanwhile, the organic blood of our ancient plants and animals (oil) has powered us for over a century and can do so for another century. CO2 is plant food and all of life on earth would die without it. There are much smarter ways to power us into the future than going back to the days of sailing ships and sealing wax.
Thank you!
We also live off grid - with 5 solar panels as our primary source - and I love the fact that we use about 1/20th the amount of electricity of a "normal" house. And- we built the systems, so I know how to fix them 😁.
Residents of Serbia are fighting the prospect of lithium mining in their backyards right now...
Like with so many of these issues, the urban population centers see all the perceived "benefits" and none of the drawbacks.