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minus-square@Forester@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-27 months agoSir, this is an emotional argument. Begone with your facts and logic.
minus-squareDdCno1linkfedilink0•7 months agoTwo people who have never heard of things like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity This is a solved issue. Absolutely nobody who knows what they are talking about would claim that you can’t run a country on renewables alone.
minus-square@Forester@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglish4•7 months agoPumped hydro storage requires massive dams to be constructed and massive amounts of habitat to be turned into artificial lakes. Also, we literally don’t have enough water for that to be viable anywhere but the coasts
Sir, this is an emotional argument. Begone with your facts and logic.
Two people who have never heard of things like these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity
This is a solved issue. Absolutely nobody who knows what they are talking about would claim that you can’t run a country on renewables alone.
Pumped hydro storage requires massive dams to be constructed and massive amounts of habitat to be turned into artificial lakes. Also, we literally don’t have enough water for that to be viable anywhere but the coasts