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55 points

Acktually, to use a VPN, you would need to turn on your PC or phone, which uses a small but existent amount of petrol -🤓

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41 points

Solar power. Checkmate, atheists.

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It’s nighttime doe

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3 points

Never give up

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9 points

Pumped storage hydropower works all the time.

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4 points
  1. it won’t be in a few hours 2. if only we had some way of storing electricity for later use
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1 point

Collect moon and starlight

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6 points

and EV car. also fuck petrol. and gallons while I’m here.

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19 points

EVs solve about 2 of the 20 problems cars create.

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3 points

EVs are not and will never ever be the answer. It’s a myth like many created by the car industry.

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The real waste is in converting solar to electricity. Use fiber optics, powered by light! Simplify! 🥴

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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

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21 points

Hydroelectricity, nuclear, wind and solar BABEEYYYYYY!!!

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Hydro destroys environments, uses enormous amounts of concrete and the related disasters have killed orders of magnitude more people than nuclear.

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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

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Orders of magnitude more than nuclear is a low bar, nuclear is quite safe. How does it compare to coal or oil?

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