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I'm assuming this is somewhat counterproductive but I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to solar so someone who knows more than me can tell me if I'm being dumb.

Also notice the golf course right next to it, very good for the environment.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Energy is always going to be tricky for Japan, being a densely populated island where most of the land is either mountains or cities. IIRC they're massively dependent on LNG imports? Wonder how that's going what with the Europeans messing up the market since 2022.

Golf is the mange of capitalism, and a cure has yet to be found.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If anyone can get those tidal generators going Japan is probably set (at least until the next tsunami)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

You know it has environmental effects too, right? People will just complain about that. Also, there's probably not enough energy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

IIRC they're massively dependent on LNG imports?

Nah they're going green now! Ammonia agony-shivering

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Remembering that time 9 years ago when I was convinced that solar freaking roadways will save us.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Ugh don’t remind me

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I thought self driving cars were 1 year away from destroying the trucking industry like 10 years ago

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

happening everywhere around me. luckily it's just monocultue abandoned tree farms they are cutting so no real ecological loss (the soil is so polluted from former iron mining anyways)

if a collapse comes at least i can go and grab myself a nice fresh panel

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

40% of Japan's forest cover is monoculture.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Solar panels need to be replaced every couple decades ooooooooooooooh

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

I was trying to write a stupid joke about Stalker, the Zone, and golf but the website security cert expired and I forgot it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mountains are counter revolutionary and reactionary. They deserve whatever they get

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"How Yukong moved the mountains" - 1976 film...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I'm almost certain this has happened at even larger scales in China as well. But they also have deserts which are suitable for solar thermal installations.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Every source of energy has an ecological footprint.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Solar is environmentally destructive

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nuke gang? Since it's 2024 and not 1984, I think solar and wind might be the only sources of power our industrial civilization is able to build fast enough to decarbonize unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah if we were serious we would build nukes and reduce consumption

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

One nuke plant generates as much power as 10 wind farms, 24/7. Renewables are also intermittent which means they cant displace combined cycle gas.

That's not to say there's no room for wind and solar in the grid, just that we couldn't reliably power the grid this way. It's much better than anything generating CO2, but we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking it's better than banning bitcoin. It does come at a cost

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

yeah solar and wind are better suited for smaller scale things like streetlights and whatnot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Funniest part about this is the name of that city means "Country Viewing Plateau".

Humans: fixing the view, one acre at a time.