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The Environmental Disaster of Wind and Solar

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Posted By: Hazymac, 10/29/2025 4:30:35 PM

The American people, and others around the world, have been sold a bill of goods on wind and solar energy. These electricity sources are intermittent, unreliable, and ridiculously expensive. Those defects supposedly were outweighed by their environmental benefits. But are there, in fact, any environmental benefits? The reality is that both wind and solar energy are terrible for the environment. This is because they are absurdly low-power energy sources, so they require vast quantities of materials (mining, manufacturing, transportation and construction) and land to produce minimal amounts of electricity. This video tells the story. It is deliberately moderate in tone to be accessible to a broad audience that probably

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Reply 1 - Posted by: philsner 10/29/2025 5:13:14 PM (No. 2023291)
This is not new. The facts have been there for decades, but now liberals have lost the means to promote lies and silence the truth.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: JunkYardDog 10/29/2025 6:33:50 PM (No. 2023329)
We don't yet have the technology to cheaply and reliably harness solar power. I was walking my dog and thinking about some SF movies and videogames I've played and I thought of creating solar panels in space, orbiting the planet, kinda like Saturn's rings. That would solve the day/night problem! But the raw materials needed, we'd have to scour the whole planet to cobble together something that big. We'd have to mine the asteroid field between Mars & Jupiter for resources on that scale. We'd need spacecraft so large they have to stay in space always, I was thinking of the planet-cracker ship the USG Ishimura from the Dead Space videogame. I sound like someone with too much time on my hands I'll admit, but its the SCALE of building we'd need to really harness solar.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Axeman 10/29/2025 7:40:41 PM (No. 2023350)
If only we could gather more that closer to 80% instead of 20% of the energy on the irradiated or wind forced surface. The physics of the current technology does not allow for that. Solar and wind energy is not much use unless converted to electricity and stored. Always a wasteful process. Then there are transmission and reconversion (ie., to heat, light, or motion) losses. Not even counting the energy cost of manufacture and delivery... But I like that my solar system more than offsets my electricity usage so that I don't have to worry about conserving it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Muguy 10/30/2025 6:25:25 AM (No. 2023437)
These alternative energy sources are no panacea. The FORCED migration to them by the liberals at the expense of reliable and cheaper sources of energy show them "not ready for prime time" until the technology improves or they become more efficient and less costly without requiring government power or subsidies.
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