theonlytruescotsman

Because libs agree with Trump that China bad, so it's important to fight that still, especially as Trump gives them the excuse to rapidly and ridiculously increase their racist policies.

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.

During the summer. Even then it doesn't scale and is an ecological nightmare given its footprint. Best designs give 10 hrs of operation per 12 hours of strong daylight. This means less than 8 hours during the winter anywhere except the equator.

Welcome to the US.

Because batteries aren't getting good enough fast enough to handle base load. Molten salt works.... The same way all solar power works. By day, and even then only on ridiculously sunny days.

Without dedicating the majority of all batteries that have ever been or will ever be made out of accessible materials on earth to renewable energy storage, you will not have enough reserve power to ever move to renewable-only energy.

If you don't build houses and people can't afford to live in the few houses that exist, then you're condemning them to death, so just build the houses or admit you're fine with killing the undesirables instead of hiding behind pointless green washed versions of NIMBYism.

Return fire:

Natural fire patterns are unpredictable and are in fact not patterns, moreover if forest fires were allowed to happen as frequently as they did before human forest management, the fires themselves would be less severe and pose practically no threat.

Additionally not building tinderbox buildings in previously forested areas or areas backed up against forests while allowing fires to happen as they will would minimize damage and loss of life while massively improving the ecological health of the area.

Well there's the other solution, the final solution to this problem which you are advocating for by default. But most people agree that that's not the direction to go so maybe we need more housing now and accept the loss of some scenery.

Everyone is already self employed, at least in capitalism. Just some take one really shitty contracts because their skillset has been monopolized by large companies.

If Russia were half as competent as you people hallucinate them to be, you'd be speaking Russian right now.

Pedantic lv4 a few hikers dying is less bad than preventing even uncontrolled forest fires since forest fires are part of the natural cycle of most forests and are entirely necessary, and the forests have adapted specifically to unpredictable forest fires.