• TaterTurnipTulip@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    But the fun thing is that all solar currently has a carbon cost associated with it. So as we’re trying to work our way out of this we’re also continuing to increase the carbon load. It’s a vicious cycle.

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      2 months ago

      But the fun thing is that once we reach a critical point, it will go from having a positive carbon impact to a negative carbon impact. But we can never get there if we never start

      It’s all about scale and infrastructure.

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      2 months ago

      But we’re not just piling more and more on the grid. It’s replacing something worse, and those things wouldn’t last forever anyway.

      The last coal power station in the UK is due to shut down in a month or so. Within a year or two it will be demolished. Would we be doing that without solar and wind? No.

      Just existing has a carbon cost. It’s our duty to keep it low.