• @BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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      Dams are not great but they’re definitely better than natural gas, coal, diesel, biomass or other burning garbage, I guess…

      • @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        burning garbage

        With modern exhaust scrubbers, is burning garbage that bad compared to potentially releasing it into the environment? Also, if we’re going to burn something, why not burn resources we’ve already extracted?

    • Hanrahan
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      They are, this isn’t about helping, it’s about distracting.

      “Better then fossil fuels” means kicking the can down the road. Dams emit lots of CH4 from rotting vegetation for example, destroy the local environment etc

      We either cut back significantly on energy use (no cars, no flying, smaller very well insulated homes etc) or collapse civilisation, those are the only choices left.

      Here’s an interesting take by physicist Tom Murphy

      https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/04/distilled-disintegration/

      The challenge is way beyond anything we’re prepared to countenance as yet, both in terms of mitigation and in terms of adaptation

      • Professor Kevin Anderson