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[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Exactly. This person is talking about planting trees and waiting 20 years?

If you're hot today you don't plant a tree, you put up a temporary shade (like a tent). Just nailing plywood roof to four posts is better than waiting 20 years for a frigging tree to grow.

People complaining about "the current technology" of solar, windmills, and batteries? Prices per MW are dropping so fast, it won't even matter soon. Battery tech is only old because we didn't have a lot of power to store. I bet we have better batteries before the decade it will take to build a single nuclear plant.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

we have better batteries before the decade it will take to build a single nuclear plant.

That is quite the gamble though. You're so sure that we'll be able to develop a new technology and deploy it on a global scale within the next 20 years, that we shouldn't even bother with the one clean solution that we know works? Not only that, you're assuming a technology we don't have yet will be better for the environment, despite all of our current battery tech being awful for the environment.

That's not like putting up a tent, that's like saying we shouldn't plant a tree because someone is probably going to invent an instant tree service, so we should just wait. Like, maybe someone does invent instant trees, but if it doesn't happen in 20 years we're gonna feel really dumb

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