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Democrats don't care about what has worked in the past, you can only use what they approve of now.. | The Original Solar System; Biden Administration approved Green New Deal Solar System | image tagged in solar system,solar farm | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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How can someone even be anti renewable energy? I find a new level of stupid every day on this site.
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Talking to me? I've lived off the grid for decades. How about you?
Did you know solar panels have a useful life of about 25 years then they are trash? Talk abut renewable, you gotta buy new ones all the time.
Hey how about toxic wind turbine blades filling up landfills? You'll love this renewable article
https://stopthesethings.com/2020/05/13/the-big-cover-up-wind-industry-burying-millions-of-toxic-turbine-blades-in-landfills/#:~:text=Pieces%20of%20wind%20turbine%20blades%20are%20buried%20in,do%20not%20degrade%20or%20break%20down%20over%20time.
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Solar panels are easy to produce at a reasonable cost. and the sun will be around for another 5,000,000,000 years so yeah renewable
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They also become trash and fill up landfills after about 25 years. Of course technology will improve that, but neither solar panels or windmills are holy and pure "green" solutions that everyone deludes themselves into believing. All sources of energy have environmental consequences. Both require fossil "fuels" to produce. Not all oil is used for transportation, much of it is used for chemical feedstock to produce "green energy". Coal is the prime source of carbon for carbon fiber and other chemicals essential for making these things.
I've lived off the grid for quite a while. I've enjoyed the technological improvements more than most, but I've also lived the shortcomings. We've had winters where we didn't get enough solar gain to provide passive solar heat for our home and our electricity for extended periods ( I live in the optimum area for solar with 300 sunny days a year average with significant heating days requirements that return investment pretty quickly). During those times you have to have a generator and a backup heat system that rely on propane or gasoline ( I cannot draw electricity off the grid because there is no grid to draw off of where live). There is no one size solves all option.
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Another factor seldom considered by idealists is the space requirements for alternative energy. If you covered the roof of a Walmart with photovoltaics it would not produce enough energy to supply all the needs of the store. A couple weeks ago I read calculations of the space required to provide solar electricity to NYC. The state of Connecticut would have to be covered with solar panels just for NYC (skyscrapers have limited roof space and high occupancy/energy demand).
Also having worked around my own system, solar panels only utilize about 15% of the energy the sun provides. The remaining 85% produces high temperatures on the panels that will literally burn the piss out of you when you bump into a panel. Excess heat is also destructive to the components, one contributor to the short lifespan of a panel. Some manufacturers are saying they have a 40 year lifespan, but that is only based on accelerated testing, not real world proof. Other data suggests they may have it up to 30 years, but the biggest problem remains, they lose efficiency over time just as a matter of the physics that produces the electricity. Like I said, technology will drive improvements.
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