The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

[Thryleon]

Yep.  There is often creative accounting used with Green energy.

I think its fundamentally a good idea, but the efficiency of most green energy sources just isnt high enough to offset the total manufacturing and disposal process.

We keep kyboshing Nuclear, but you can get a lot of fuel out of a much smaller amount of it mined, with very small amount of waste, and if the same amount of energy went into funding research into better waste recycling, we might get a lot further.

Its in its infancy, but nuclear waste is starting to find its ways into batteries that can be used safely in a pacemaker and run it for a very long time.