(10-13-2021, 01:20 AM)PaulP date Wrote:Whether clean energy is as clean as its proponents make out is only of peripheral interest. It's way better that coal and the technologies currently in use. This line of argumentation leads very quickly and easily to inaction.In segments of this debate there can be significant differences between clean and zero carbon.
Clean energy is only one piece of the jigsaw puzzle. One needs to consider transport, building construction and other aspects as well.
My major objection is that what we call 'clean' isn't really so clean, and I get the hypocrisy of the 'clean energy' movement labelling some genuine zero carbon alternatives dirty, they seem to lack a mirror!
Clean relative to coal isn't so hard, clean relative to other forms of clean can be a real challenge!
I suspect a great way to identify an energy apparatchik is to find they advocate one size fits all!
Many of us are here today because of ANSTO, we've either been treated, scanned or traced using radioisotopes produced in Sydney. A facility the green clean energy movement want closed as a dirty relic of the past, yet inside it is cutting edge, far more modern than any major solar cell production facility!
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