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Originally posted by Retro
The infographic I provided shows we would actually need less energy - and as a fun fact, we could actually produce more with the right technological innovations. Going off that, technological innovation is limited only by the funding we provide and the bright minds we cultivate in our higher education systems! 🙃
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No I saw your graphic but it didn't address all of my problems I have with trying to move over to renewable energy tomorrow.
For solar energy, the sun isn't shining 24/7. In certain places (like Alaska) where you literally have 6 months of no sun it wouldn't be sustainable. You could only have this in places like Arizona for non private usage. Solar panels today aren't good enough to the point where we can just use it anywhere in the US like the graphic suggests.
For wind energy there are only a couple states in my region of the US (northeast) that could use it with the current technology we have. I'm sure if we invest in more we could but not at the moment
Water actually could work here but there are some landlocked states with no huge reservoirs to actually use water as a legit source of energy.
It's surprising to see that we'd use 40% less energy with these new sources but the infographic assumes all parts of the US are equitable for these resources when they are not. If it was as easy as shown there then we would have been there a while ago
I hope we do go there one day though.
