| ▲ | TheRoque 3 hours ago | |||||||||||||
Renewables provide electricity only, but planes, boats, trucks, basically all the supply chain, works with oil only for the moment. The ease of use of oil has not been replaced yet. Do you realize how easy it is to handle oil ? You can just put it in a barrel and ship it anywhere in that barrel. No need for wires or complex batteries like for electricity, nor complex pipelines like for gas. And even if we figured out how to electrify everything (which we didn't as I just said), we would still run into resources shortages for batteries, wires (copper etc.), nuclear fuel (uranium)... | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | margalabargala 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
Expanding renewables to the easily replaceable items like power plants, generators, and most consumer vehicles would radically reduce oil usage to where it becomes a minor concern. Also things like biodiesel exist. A more sustainable, renewable-forward, electrified reality is easily possible. There is not a risk of resource shortage of copper. The doomer and prepper talking points you're parroting are not based in reality. | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | kogasa240p 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
Keep your eye on butanol https://phys.org/news/2026-02-microbial-eco-friendly-butanol.... | ||||||||||||||