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[-] Narrrz@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

even if it did, so what?

oh, saving the planet is too expensive, so we're just going to let it die to save money

We can all tighten our purse strings for a few years collectively (or the top 1% does it for like...a few months) or a select few of us can live in an underwater utopia built by our boiling slaves....................we're going to go with the slaves

[-] anzich@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

I guess you could say that the Saudis made a line in the sand

[-] rammer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

It's not finished yet. Just like many other grand projects they've started.

[-] BillyTheSkidMark@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I realise you're being facetious and I do agree with your sentiment... But I guess if this was true we could/should look at potential other, cheaper, alternatives (like invest in more wave abs geothermal power)

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If it cost 1000s of 10,000s a month to simply cook food, it would probably not be worth the cost to save the planet. That's how high they expensive they expected wind to be in their calculations.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago

Rightwing thinktank Civitas mistakenly cost onshore wind power 10,000 times higher than reality and claimed bill would be £4.5tn

[-] anzich@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

They did this shit with "calculating infrasound from windmills" in Germany 20 years ago. They (a government and lobbyist financed org) were several orders of magnitudes wrong but took a very long time admitting it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022460X23004091

As some German celebrity said: "It's hard to save the world in your spare time when others are paid to destroy it full time"

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Feel like its a common mistake to mix up kW and kWh, but if you don't know the basics of power you shouldn't be trying to write on the topic and any peer reviewer should know the cost of onshore wind is in the cents per kWh, not 100's of dollars per kWh if someone has even if only from paying attention to their own electric bill.

Also apparently mixed billions and trillions at one point? Just a small factor of a 3 (orders of magnitudes).

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but that doesn't support their narrative

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

what's a factor of ten thousand between friends?

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