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Originally Posted by Tsawke`Iheyu
A very bad thing is that they don't look for some other options, like wind powered or solar powered resources
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Well that may be interesting, but in the end it is not the solution. I keep saying this, but the resources to build these "clean" energy solutions are not gained in a clean way (as the paragraph on Lithium shows above). Hydropower is still considered a green and clean alternative renewable energy in many countries. It is the reason Germany can claim so high percentage of clean energy. Yet it requires dams, flooded areas, displaced people and plenty of other impacts. Solar and wind need resources (REEs, copper, large stretches of land) too. And all this aside - producing energy in a cleaner way does not solve the other problems like roads (which would be built for electric cars as well) or eliminate the pollution in the businesses that use that energy. What I am saying is that people these days focus too much on energy, fuel, oil and CO2 emissions. Of course this is natural as the energy crisis is dead ahead, but it is merely a symptom of something bigger - something that causes not just CO2 emissions and carbon mining operations, but large scale mineral mining in general, highways through rain forests and the Serengeti, overfishing, conversion of pristine landscapes into farmland... - and Sout Amerrica is at the frontline of that as well as Africa. They are among the last areas that have not been transformed and they work with all their power to that transformation. It is what "development" is: Building
roads and railways and powerlines and cities and factories - no matter if all this is powered and used by solar energy or not. Solar driven bulldozers and gunships (the US military wants to use 100% biofuel for their operations until 2050) still destroy forests and indigenous communities. Or to stick with Avatar: A solar powered "Dragon" with missiles produced by wind energy will still tear down homwtree.
01-03-2011, 10:55 AM
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