Yeah, I suppose if we created Dyson sphere, we could capture enough solar energy to send someone to Alpha Centauri using laser propulsion but right now it is not economically feasible to generate any significant portion of our power from renewables, right? Maybe someday, but not now and this juvenile insistence that we either torpedo our economy or live more like the Amish is not productive at all.
I just saw a 16 year old kid that discovered how to detect cancer for $0.03. Maybe someone will make a breakthrough and figure out how to make dilithium anti-matter reactors or something but lets not all sit in sackcloth waiting for that to happen.
WHAT!?!?!!! Seeriously?!!! WTF!!! Why are we even bothering with this stuff? I’d rather have cheap corn for the barbecue and livestock feed than get a 30% return on energy used. This is fucking outrageous, I’d rather put a fucking solar panel on the hood of my car.
We went from wood to coal to oil to gas in under 200 years. Why wouldn’t we move on to something else besides nuclear in 10,000 years?
They also power places like Austria through their grid.
Are you under the impression that solar panels have an infinite useful life? I think the ones we have today only last about 15 years. So once you amortize the cost of the panels over that time, solar is waaaay more expensive than gas/coal/nuclear. I’m not sure what the deal is with wind but I don’t think they’re made of unobtainium either.
Germany has HUGE subsidies for this stuff. The actual cost of their electricity is far higher than ours. And the rural windmill farmers wouldn’t make a dime without those subsidies.
Not on an economic basis it isn’t.