• theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    I don’t, but that doesn’t matter. Geothermal is limited in use case. Hydro is worse for the environment than coal unless you make it a hydro battery, and then you only have so many places you can build it, and wind is naturally unreliable by definition. Solar is the most consistent renewable, and the cheapest, and it’s useless on average half of a day.

    Renewables are great, and eventually when we figure out perfect energy storage using hydrogen or other super common material based battery they’ll be almost good enough for most use cases on earth.

    Until then, though, and for all future applications, fission and fusion are going to be needed.

    Edit: also lol if you think wave generators are anything but an express way to shed micro plastics into the ocean.

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      9 days ago

      Out of interest, would you care to share with us your PhD thesis? I have to assume it’s in a field like energy grid engineering, given how confidently you’re disagreeing with CSIRO and the scientists who work for it.