Why renewable energy won't work.

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Kasz216 said:

sapphi_snake said:

So, in other words: people don't think of what is best in the long run, and saving money is more important than having a planet to live on.

Well... that and most countries don't have the space to build power plants the size of Arizona... because there is no way to make much more efficent wind, solar and hydro plants because there is a very finite amount of energy put in one spot.

Photovoltaic energy is only about 25% efficient at the very top end at the moment, there are ways to make it much more efficient. In fact there are more efficiency gains to be had in solar than in any other form of energy as far as I can see.