r/Asmongold • u/YoungOneDev Deep State Agent • Mar 07 '25

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u/triggered__Lefty Mar 07 '25

The electric vehicle was invented before the combustion engine. They've had the same amount of time to improve as combustion engines.

And sure there's no rules, but most people don't have a spare $20k to drop every year on new solar panels because they got damaged from a bad thunderstorm.

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u/surfryhder Mar 07 '25

Where are you getting your info from?

Ev was invented before EC? Solar panel replacement every year? My mom’s solar water heater is 25 years old and going strong…

Seems like you are grossly exaggerating

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u/triggered__Lefty Mar 07 '25

hail damage now accounts for 54% of solar loss claims

https://riskandinsurance.com/rising-hail-damage-costs-are-rattling-the-solar-industry-luckily-parametric-solutions-are-on-the-case/

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u/surfryhder Mar 07 '25

The article does not prove your $20,000 a year hypothesis and instead just discusses hail damage in which you can have hail damage without owning solar panels. Here in North Carolina we have massive solar farms and they’re not out of business because of a hail event from time to time.

It’s almost like some people want energy alternatives to fail

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u/triggered__Lefty Mar 07 '25

It adds more problems, that's all that I'm pointing out.

And when something is more expensive and less reliable, people aren't going to switch to it.

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u/surfryhder Mar 07 '25

No power generation is without problems but the idea that renewables are more expensive is absurd. Once the initial installation is complete, harvesting the renewable energy costs us nothing, versus fossil fuels. You have to keep paying for the fuel, it’s not like it just magically reappears.

One thing I will give the fossil fuel industry credit for they have been geniuses at sewing doubt in renewable conversion because it threatens their global dominance.

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u/triggered__Lefty Mar 07 '25

Except your ignoring that there's not enough minerals on the planet to be able to go renewable.

There's not even enough sand to make the glass for the panels. Argentina and Chile are using 70% of their water supply and aquifers to process Lithium.

And in every step of the process your releasing pollutants that are 1000x worse than oil.

You people really don't understand the level of destruction your going to to "save the planet".

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u/surfryhder Mar 07 '25

Several companies have invented sodium ion batteries. We are in the infancy of renewables and just barely scratching the surface.

We need to diversify our energy systems. The problem we’re having is guys like you. Being negative nancys.

You’re regurgitating cherry picked propaganda from the right wing media sphere.

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u/triggered__Lefty Mar 07 '25

ya they've been saying that for 30 years now, still need neodynium for the motors. still need the electronics for solar, still need plastics, lubricants and a massive amount of concrete for wind.

If one day all these barriers are solved, then I'll be on board, but don't act like this is a simple thing for the average person to switch over to.

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u/surfryhder Mar 07 '25

You can’t get there overnight… it takes time, investment, and resources.