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[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

Fine, I'll take my attention elsewhere if you insist...

[-] Khuda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[-] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

geothermal

renewable

WTF are they smoking?

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

I guess it’s not technically renewable but the reservoir of geothermal energy is so vast it’s hard to see how it could be used up and it has minimal environmental impacts.

[-] downhomechunk@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

Don't current geothermal techniques trigger small earthquakes in the midwest and Ohio Valley?

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is possible depending on the technology used. I personally don’t think the earthquake issue is as big of a deal as people think it is. We’re talking quakes so small you don’t even feel them.

I don’t know if this would compound and lead to larger ones if there were more facilities. If so it could be a bigger concern.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago

To be fair, I don't even consider solar and wind power to be renewable. But then again I'm the sort of weirdo that considers things on astronomical timescales.

[-] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Renewable doesn't exist on astronomical time scales, so you're just being an ass.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Renewable" is just a word they came up with to keep us from doing something about the fact that the sun will grow into a red giant with a diameter larger than Earth's orbit.

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