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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By not picking, you are picking fossil fuels. Because we can't fully replace everything with solar/wind yet, and fossil fuels are already being burned as we speak.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, give me an option that doesn’t make a part of the world uninhabitable or increases climate change.

That just a stupid comparison and is there any reason why we can’t also do wind solar thermal hydro also? It’s fossil fuels or nuclear and that’s it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You posted this 21 hours ago. I believe I answered you already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, give me an option that doesn’t make a part of the world uninhabitable or increases climate change.

That just a stupid comparison and is there any reason why we can’t also do wind solar thermal hydro also? It’s fossil fuels or nuclear and that’s it huh?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I never said we can't do also wind, solar, thermal, and hydro; in fact we have to do all of them. But, hydro isn't possible in most places (and also makes "a part of the world uninhabitable" too — look at how much the Three Gorges Dam displaced, for example), nor is geothermal. And wind and solar are inconsistent — great as part of it, but they can't be the entirety of the grid, unless you want the entire country to go dark on a cloudy day, cuz we simply can't make batteries store that much.