But there's no reason to not use resources we already have at hand? And what you're suggesting would be better handled with government research grants or private investing.
One method was to use gravity batteries. Basically you use solar/wind energy to pump water upwards and when you need the power, you release the water and gravity turns a turbine.
Obviously this becomes impossible if your grid is at capacity.
Plus, all the hippies tend to forget what needs to happen to make hydro power in the first place. You need to skullfuck an entire ecosystem to build a massive fuckoff dam.
I mean, once you've utterly destroyed an entire region sure, the energy it produces is pretty green. Not as green as the valleys and forests you destroyed to make it.
Nah, they just want Saudi Arabia to live like kings while we don't
All of the above??
That's dumb, don't they realize we still need the oil for plastics?
No the common person literally understands nothing about the O&G industry, how things are made, or really just how the world works in general.
Looks like we're going back to the age of whalebone, pigskin and horsehide.
Chicharrónes are ageless! Mmmmmm...
But there's no reason to not use resources we already have at hand? And what you're suggesting would be better handled with government research grants or private investing.
How do you store wind and solar energy on a large scale without massive batteries? What is the ecological impact on that? Serious question.
One method was to use gravity batteries. Basically you use solar/wind energy to pump water upwards and when you need the power, you release the water and gravity turns a turbine.
Obviously this becomes impossible if your grid is at capacity.
Plus, all the hippies tend to forget what needs to happen to make hydro power in the first place. You need to skullfuck an entire ecosystem to build a massive fuckoff dam.
I mean, once you've utterly destroyed an entire region sure, the energy it produces is pretty green. Not as green as the valleys and forests you destroyed to make it.