Environmental scam... Not enough lithium in the world to go "green"
(notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (30)
sorted by:
High voltage is how cross-country lines do that currently. The whole east coast is one huge grid. The west is another grid. And Texas is the third grid in the US.
If the energy is from the sun and wind and essentially free, it doesn't matter if there's waste. There's a ton of waste in our current system.
The problem is that they aren't free. They have ecological consequences -- before, during and after the life.
We would essentially need to overhaul a massive number of different aspects of technology with a ton of new discoveries and R&D philosophies, and even then solar is already incredibly inefficient and even Elon doesn't believe it'll get more efficient and he's as much of a solar shill as the next.
I didn't say the system is free. The energy itself is free.