"In a scenario of reduced availability of fossil fuels, shrinking supply chains, ecological collapse and climate crisis, the most sensible thing to do is to plan a reduction in unnecessary energy consumption, guaranteeing the basics, boosting local production and local consumption, instead of trying to maintain economic models based on energy transport, materials and products from thousands of kilometers. The time for denying inconvenient truths has passed."
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@gerrymcgovern I remember reading somewhere that 30% of petroluem fuel is spent on transporting petroleum!
@tetrislife Probably true. But there are also huge mining and transport cost in the materials required for building solar and wind machines. It takes lots of petroleum to make them. And the mining waste is massive. Wind requires major amounts of rare earths. One ton of rare earth = 2,000 ton of toxic waste, much of it radioactive. We are being sold the illusion that we can keep on consuming once we change the power source.