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PsychologicalAerie53 t1_j5d98hu wrote

Reply to comment by pa_bourbon in My face when I saw this months gas bill. by bearsharkbear3

Can’t disagree. However the negative environmental impact of fracking and the delay it caused to the transition to actually clean energy was not worth it. Completely short sighted.

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KentuckYSnow t1_j5der11 wrote

There's no such thing as clean energy. It all has environmental drawbacks, from dammed valleys to eagles whose wings get chopped off. The materials used to store electricity to avoid burning fossil fuels are themselves terrible to extract from the environment, but like much else, it shifts the problem elsewhere and it's out of sight, out of mind.

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PsychologicalAerie53 t1_j5emvdt wrote

Everything has drawbacks. Renewables and nuclear just has fewer drawbacks than fossil fuels.

Critical minerals in batteries are more than 95% recyclable with today’s technology so that isn’t as big of a deal as people think.

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neglectedselenium t1_j5e8s4k wrote

Don't worry about them lithium batteries. There are other more common metals which could replace lithium, like sodium.

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