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Acktually, to use a VPN, you would need to turn on your PC or phone, which uses a small but existent amount of petrol -🤓
Solar power. Checkmate, atheists.
and EV car. also fuck petrol. and gallons while I'm here.
EVs solve about 2 of the 20 problems cars create.
While that's true, they "solve"* the two issues that are most pressing with ICE cars, air polution and fossil fuel use. I'd rather have EVs over ICEs, and I'd rather have walkable cities and robust public transit than either of the car options.
* are better, not perfect
perfect is the enemy of good.
With climate change, we have a multiplication of flooding and heat wave. Cars increase the effect of both of them. EVs or ICEs, it doesn't matter.
EVs are not and will never ever be the answer. It's a myth like many created by the car industry.
no one said they were, calm down.
It's nighttime doe
Pumped storage hydropower works all the time.
Never give up
Collect moon and starlight
The real waste is in converting solar to electricity. Use fiber optics, powered by light! Simplify! 🥴
Hydroelectricity, nuclear, wind and solar BABEEYYYYYY!!!!!
Hydro destroys environments, uses enormous amounts of concrete and the related disasters have killed orders of magnitude more people than nuclear.
Yeah if three gorges broke then it would be the biggest mass death event in human history. Hydro dams are at the bottom of my list
Orders of magnitude more than nuclear is a low bar, nuclear is quite safe. How does it compare to coal or oil?
perfectly valid point to bring up on a community dedicated to hating on polluters even if it was originally just a joke. Pretty serious matters