• Chunk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Your argument is clear. There’s an opportunity cost to Green.

    What you’re missing is the momentum of green. A single solar panel in a sea of coal power plants is certainly dirtier than coal in the short term. For the exact reasons you outlined.

    But you have 2 flaws in your logic.

    1. we aren’t in that situation right now and I’d like to understand why you think we are. As we become more green then green things result in less brown, so there’s a snowball effect you’re ignoring here. Furthermore that snowball effect has already begun!

    2. Renewable energy, like panels, result in brown during manufacturing and installation. Once they’re up they generate power for, on average, 25 years. The electricity-per-co2-ton is better than coal over 25 years.

    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago
      1. The indication of this is distorted by subsidies for green. And “we” here ignores most of the planet.

      It’s good that it’s begun.

      1. Is it better than nuclear?