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boxed 16 hours ago

Any? Solar and nuclear would like a word :P

Tade0 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Solar actually has over twice the footprint of onshore wind, considering the energy needed to produce the panels, but it's irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, as all those mentioned sources, if they were to form the majority of the mix, would make electricity a much smaller chunk of the overall footprint than, say, food.

In 2024 France electricity was responsible for an equivalent of 16.1Mt of CO2 - largely due to gas peaker plants, which together contributed to a single digit percentage of overall electricity consumption.

That's 235kg of CO2 per person, or 2.5-7.5kg of beef in terms of environmental impact.

elric 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That feels like a disingenuous take. If the composites in wind turbine blades are an environmental problem, then so is nuclear waste and so are the semiconductors in solar panels.