Something to chew on as we push to clean energy. Read the article posted here: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-limits-of-clean-energy Share what you know, your guesses, your hopes. I'm thinking the article probably overstates the numbers, but the concern is real. You can't make stuff out of nothing, it all has to come from somewhere, and electronics is known for needing materials that can only be obtained by mining, which is never clean.
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I can't get the link to work, Elly. Can you fix it?
Having read the article before, I was also struck but the author's omission of the amount of fossil fuels that would be required to mine all the raw materials he says we'll need. It's the same supply chain issue that plagues the agriculture industry, taking into account all of the energy and fossil fuel inputs required to produce any food, from vegetables to meat.
We harm the environment in ways that we don't know or recognize.