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Can we please just have both? (startrek.website)

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[–] winterayars 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately renewables have nasty costs like this of their own.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Solar panels require a specific grade of silicone as a rare(ish) raw material input that requires extraction and heavy processing. Wind turbines don't really use anything that is not readily available (steel, aluminum, fiber glass, etc.)

The technology to recycle solar panels still needs to be developed. The technology to recycle solar panel blades exists, but has not scaled up yet.

I'm not saying solar/wind have no material cost. I am saying the process for refining uranium requires extracting a lot of uranium ore.

[–] winterayars 2 points 10 months ago

You don't actually need that much uranium though. Yeah it's a big operation, but that stuff goes a long way.

Even wind power needs rare earth elements like neodymium and dysprosium, which pretty much only come from China and the mining operations there are kind of horror shows.