• CookieJarObserver
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    1 year ago

    Solar requires vast amounts of rare earths to be mined

    Not true, the newest solar panels don’t need rare earths at that scale.

    and wind requires huge amount of unrecylable blades and generators to be produced.

    Both are recyclable and even if they were not they are not radioactive, poisonous or otherwise hazardous… The blades are from a Artificial resin And glas fiber and the generators are from normal industrial materials like iron aluminum and copper.

    Over all actual renewables are much more environmentally friendly and have less emissions. But yes they are also not absolutely zero emission (even though that being possible)

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        1 year ago

        This data is old as hell… Especially regarding technology that changes twice a year…

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          1 year ago

          Data isnt milk, it doesnt go bad just because its old. This was on the front of a well maintained wiki article and is from a credible source. If you have more recent data from a credible source showing something fundamentally different please share it.

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        1 year ago

        Because renewables don’t change at all in a decade, and the ever-decreasing quality of uranium ore doesn’t involve higher emissions than the benchmark of ranger and cigar lake from 2014. /s