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Anon questions our energy sector (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We had magic mirrors and magic fans for centuries tho.

Yet we decided to release way more poison and even way more radiation by mining and burning fossil fuels. We just poison larger areas than any nuclear disasters. And with fossil fuels people actually get cancer, and with toxic byproducts, mutations and birth defects.

People in polluted areas die sooner. Except around nuclear disasters sights - the air gets cleaner once all the people are thrown out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We had magic mirrors and magic fans for centuries tho.

We've had solar and wind electricity generation for centuries?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Eccentricity generators were invented before mass oil or coal use (1830s by Faraday).

We've had windmills, hydro, and even animal/human powered devices that could result in turning cranks for the generator to produce electricity - all for centuries at even that point. I would have to look up about when we first used solar to boil water, but I'm guessing there about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Biomass and windmills perhaps