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    4 months ago

    You do realize that renewables still have an emissions footprint from manufacturing, transportation, deployment, transmission, and recycling/retirement… Right? That they’re limited lifespan disposable goods? So are batteries.

    Moreover, each new solar panel has an opportunity cost in that it could be used to supplant fossil fuels in an area of the world that would actually benefit from it, rather than helping a facility THAT ALREADY HAS A TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM cool things down further because Americans are too spoiled with their extreme electricity consumption patterns to do anything else.