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Old 01-01-2020, 12:41 PM
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Sounds good Peter but the big picture is not as simple as that. Renewables, solar, wind are not pilotable. If they had to provide the supply on demand the only alternative we know is battery storage and then they're not that green anymore. Solar panels manufacturing relies on a lot of various alloys, metals, chemical processes so do EVs. So to some extent everything we use and all our service industry relies on coal for electricity and petrol for transport. We sure need to cut our emissions. But solar and wind are a minute part of the whole energy used. We stop coal or petrol, we might as well turn all the lights off and stop moving. And we don't make solar panels either or EVs.