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If we switched to renewable energy (ponder.cat)

submitted 1 month ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/memes@slrpnk.net

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 24 points 1 month ago

For all the things you think of when you hear "renewables", that analysis has already been made, and it's overwhelmingly better in every way to ditch fossil fuels.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I’d assume this is true over any sufficiently long time horizon.

I’d guess it’s like 20 years for a lotta stuff? i.e. short enough the average Lemming would benefit in their lifetime

[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

More like a year. A wind turbine, depending on size, position etc, generates the amount of power used in it's construction within 2.5 - 11 months. Over it's life cycle it generates about 40x the energy you put in.