• @ForesterOP
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    7 months ago

    What?

    Do you have any idea how many things we can do with basically free energy? Like for instance, desalinate and clean sea water and pump it back into our exhausted aquifers. Or use electrolysis to split some of that water and oxygen and hydrogen. Or scrub carbon from the atmosphere with gigantic manual filter aways. Or just store excess power in grid scale batteries and cycle plants on and off as needed.

    • @mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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      -67 months ago

      Yes, all of those things make it more likely for human numbers to grow even more, and in the process making more species extinct, and habitats destroyed.

      Physics and biology tell us we are living unsustainably. Free energy just makes exploitation of the planet more efficient, wipe out nature even faster with more humans.

      If we expect to exist in 100 years, degrowth is the only answer, green energy is a scam.