Sardauk said:
TheRealMafoo said:
mrstickball said:
Sarduk - HE3 powered reactors will come online within the next 30-40 years. Even with currently available efficiency ratings, 50 tons of HE3 (the moon has about 100,000,000 megatons of the stuff, FYI) could meet the energy needs of the world for a year. Don't you think it'd be more environmentally-friendly to mine 50 tons of material as opposed to thousands of kilometers of solar arrays?
Just because something is non-renewable doesn't automatically make it less friendly. Afterall, the material used in windmills or solar arrays are non-renewable. Conservation > Renewable. It'd be better to use a small, non-renewable amount of product for something that can take care of billions as opposed to a much larger amount of material needed for a renewable source. Even if we did use solar to power everything, the arrays would constantly need replaced by non-renewable materials. |
Everything is renewable, it's just a question of time.
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Indeed, but time that we don't have.
And our current economy is agains't what is renewable and substainable.
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We have a lot of time. Humans are not going to destroy the planet. Worst we will do is make it uninhabitable for humans, all die off, and in 200 million years (a blink of an eye in the planets life), nothing we did here will matter.
