Are renewables renewable? Only in your dreams. Solar panels have a lifespan. So do Windmills. As do nuclear power plants and dams.
Are renewables green? Only in your dreams. Can you make a dam without cement? Can you erect a windmill without cement? How is cement made and how resource intensive is it's production?
Is the mining, refining and then manufacturing of batteries out of lithium without any environmental impact? Can you recycle a lithium battery?
If we were to replace every single personal vehicle with an electric one, how much new electricity would have to be produced just to charge them each night? Express that capacity in nuclear plants. Is it realistic to think we can build that many nuclear plants by 2035?
If we do keep building nuclear plants, how green is is to sequester the spent fuel for as long as it is radioactive and toxic to life? How much cement goes into a nuclear power plant?
The questions do not end there. The answers, if sought honestly are not comforting. Yet, not a word has been published about the reality of Electricity.
Long story short, there is nothing green about electricity, and there is nothing renewable or sustainable about it's production. If and when humans internalise that, we can start on a road to stablise the environment that gave rise to life. As long as we keep denying the reality, we will continue to alter the environment for the worse.
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Are renewables renewable? Only in your dreams. Solar panels have a lifespan. So do Windmills. As do nuclear power plants and dams.
Are renewables green? Only in your dreams. Can you make a dam without cement? Can you erect a windmill without cement? How is cement made and how resource intensive is it's production?
Is the mining, refining and then manufacturing of batteries out of lithium without any environmental impact? Can you recycle a lithium battery?
If we were to replace every single personal vehicle with an electric one, how much new electricity would have to be produced just to charge them each night? Express that capacity in nuclear plants. Is it realistic to think we can build that many nuclear plants by 2035?
If we do keep building nuclear plants, how green is is to sequester the spent fuel for as long as it is radioactive and toxic to life? How much cement goes into a nuclear power plant?
The questions do not end there. The answers, if sought honestly are not comforting. Yet, not a word has been published about the reality of Electricity.
Long story short, there is nothing green about electricity, and there is nothing renewable or sustainable about it's production. If and when humans internalise that, we can start on a road to stablise the environment that gave rise to life. As long as we keep denying the reality, we will continue to alter the environment for the worse.
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