06-22-2024, 09:08 AM
(06-22-2024, 08:12 AM)SSGSurf Wrote: Fossil fuels will not and should not disappear in the next 50+ years. They should be our primary source until we can transition to more practical options like Nuclear and Hydrogen. I have an off-grid property running on solar, as that is the best option at the moment, but solar on current battery chemistries are not the best for our society and the environment. You will see Tesla make a shift at some point in the near future. We cannot support current mining practices and future disposal of current solar panels and batteries, no matter what they pitch on future recycling of these materials, its BS! There are better technologies that will replace the current options and the need to recycle the megatons of our current solar waste will make no sense. Until that time fossil fuels make far greater sense until we can transition to a lower natural resource input and lower waste output source.
Well, that's your opinion, and you are welcome to it. What concerns me about your argument is the continuing contribution of greenhouse gases for the next 50+ years. We're already seeing the effects of climate change, and we know that even if we could stop emitting CO2 or CH4 right now, it would take decades for the Earth to recover. Now you want to make things even worse by continuing to use fossil fuels for several decades. Perhaps in 50 years, we'll have fusion and all sorts of things we don't have now, but it'll be a very different world to the one you or I grew up in.