So renewable energy is not better? Can someone please supply a non-clickbait title?
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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Renewable is better, by tons. The title is accurate in that people talking about solar and batteries being bad for various reasons is misleading and wrong.
Does he talk about when commercial solar plants use herbicides? to me that's the main downside
Your argument seems to imply that the single use consumable fuel extraction economy doesn't use herbicides or have numerous other much worse effects. You also imply without proof that solar collection systems cannot be designed to avoid the use of herbicides, another spurious whataboutism.
Watch the video yourself. It largely argues that those kinds of whataboutisms distract from the fundamental fact that oil is an unsustainable single use resource, while renewables harvest a limitless supply essentially free energy. Yes, we still have all the same issues we always do with ANY industry at scale, but that is a weak argument for not moving forward with renewables (sunlight + storage tech) and away from consumables (petroleum).
So if all we did was decide to stop growing corn to turn into ethanol, and we used only that land for generating only solar power, we'd be able to generate 84% more electricity on an annual basis than we do today from all of our energy sources.
Damn. Factorio lied to me about the space efficiency of solar panels.
The second ending is the best part for me. So nice to see him bring up the point about the Declaration of Independence as it was something I was thinking about recently as well.
My favourite video of the year so far
Generally I'm very skeptical about titles like these thinking that there's some sort of misinformation or whitewashing done to continue to push fossil fuels.
However, this guy is incredible and one of my favorite YouTubers of all time. He can make almost anything interesting. His level of being researched, educated, and thorough is almost unmatched. Thanks for sharing, OP.
This episode is fucking amazing and so cathartic.
Hear, and I cannot stress this enough, hear.
The best.
For your thumbnail.
https://youtube-thumbnail-grabber.com/
Once you load the video thumnails you can copy the url into the post image url.
I dont understand. The video pops up with a thumbnail on piefed. Did it not on lemmy or something?
If that's the case then no need to worry about it.