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This information is completely meaningless unless compared to other sources of energy production and other sources of pollution.

Hasn't this been largely debunked? It's the same material we use for airplanes.

https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.34VU4DX

You say to use water energy, but how much do our current solutions also leach microplastic/chemicals into the water?

It has been claimed that a bit over 60% of the approx. 1.5 million tonnes released into waterways each and every year comes from two sources in roughly equal amounts ..

* Tyre shedding

* Machine washing synthetic fibre clothing.

Article + graphic: https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.34VU4DX

Source: https://iucn.org/

It's funny how coal/oil propaganda is so strong people buy the craziest BS about renewables

Meanwhile China is investing full on solar while boomers waste their time with anti-renewable propaganda that makes no sense to anyone with a sense of orders of magnitude and functioning mental math

> A single turbine contaminates the environment with more than 100 kg of toxic micro particles

Wow, over 100kg? And how much does Coal? How much does Oil?

We need more solar, more wind, more nuclear and less 19-century technology crap

And we need to keep cool heads so we can assess the full true costs of all energy technologies without being wedded to an agenda (such that it disregards inconvenient facts) either way. Taking account of the numerous coal mines opening in China to provide the electricity for solar panel or turbine construction doesn't imply an anti-green mindset. Out of sight, out of mind! Worth mentioning that without that 19th century crap, none of the advances we enjoy today would have been possible. But we do indeed move on as the evidence directs - one trusts.

Yes, we should understand the impact of newer forms of energy production, that's how evolution goes forward.

Naturally older energy production methods stay online while newer ones ramp up.

But a lot of criticism of newer technologies come from people acting like Coal plants emit butterflies and oil didn't cause any problems.

It's good to remind that both oil and coal also had a lot of problems during its technological ramp up (also because steam engines were evolving as well) but we forget about those with time.

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