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Not sure if serious but I posed the question right at the top. I posed it multiple times, I bolded it, I made you aware that I bolded it.
If you can't see a difference between running a country and renting a house ... Maybe have a think and you'll find a myriad ways in which the situations don't compare.
Of course I can. I don't need to spend time writing up everything before I allow myself to think it. But here you go:
You compared the lifetime of a battery to the half-life of nuclear waste, which is dumb. You assumed that solar panels or batteries are unrecyclable, which is false. You conveniently omitted that uranium must be mined as well, which is kind of a relevant omission.
Oh the ones that I answered last night?
Sigh……so you still don’t get the rental example. I can’t possibly make it any simpler or clearer, but I’ll try…...
Only let people in after you’ve determined they’re allowed in for good. Before you determine that they’re allowed in, they can wait where they are currently. Make sense?
I didn’t compare the lifetime of batteries to the half life of nuclear waste.
Solar panels are recyclable to an extent, not entirely, but what I said is that recycling them is cost prohibitive - which it is. It costs more to recycle them than it is worth. It is cheaper to simply buy a new panel, meaning the broken/old panels go to landfill unless someone likes losing money recycling them.
Batteries, the technology that we have now, is largely not recyclable - especially given most of the batteries are made in China from dozens of different brands, sold and installed by companies that have no way to recycle them even if they were 100% recyclable, which they’re not.
Uranium must be mined, of course, but mining 1 thing vs mining a dozen different things to make batteries and solar panels and transmission lines and wind turbines…….come on, surely you can see the difference? Do you even know how much concrete and steel is used for every single wind turbine that goes up? As time goes on we need more and more - power usage doesn’t go down - so the solar and wind farms just spread until there’s nowhere left to spread. Then what?