| Scoobes said: Errr... the job of industrial scientists is to turn science into commercial products and that includes environmental science and renewable tech. The renewables industry is growing internationally as the tech improves so if he really was pro-industrialization he should be supporting the rapidly growing industry. There is no deindustrializing, simply a transition to a different model. |
Trump pretty much is pro-industrialization since he promotes domestic manufacturing and extracting traditional fuel sources ...
Renewables as an industry ? Haha, hardly since they only accounted for 10.2% of energy production last year and that figure also includes biomass too not all of which are carbon neutral either so environmentalists can't have both the cake and eat it ...
Cutting ourselves off from fossil fuels pretty much means deindustrialization since there are more uses to it than as just an energy source. Fertilizers, international transportation, militaries, polymers, liquid products based petrochemicals, refrigerants and the many other good stuff that rely on crude oil that does not have an alternative that one could easily substitute ...
Growth ? That depends ...
Hydroelectric ? Nope, growth for that energy source has reached it's peak since we could dam every river we could get ...
Geothermal ? Reservoirs are far away from the population so there's no future to be had for this source of energy as it can not hope to truly hope to meet our energy demands so it's just a bonus if we can have it since it's production is just a drop in the bucket compared to other sources of energy ...
Solar ? Battery technology limits it's potential and we probably can't do much better than lithium-ion batteries (physics won't allow us to take it much further) ...
Wind ? Only a few states could expect to successfully transition to such a source of energy. How is every other state such as California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina supposed to achieve the same independence ?
Biomass ? Only 15% of our land is considered 'arable' so we can't expect that energy source to grow forever to be competitive with fossil fuels in terms of capacity ...
