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[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This was posted in c/Environment yesterday. I bring that up to point you over to that thread, where @Powderhorn@beehaw.org had some great insights into why this move is more regressive than it sounds.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 months ago
[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So originally I wasn't federated with !environment@beehaw.org so couldn't read the post, I've now read it and can understand everything I didn't before. It's disappointing. But I'm glad that wave power was mentioned as I think that will be huge in the coming years. Hopefully it's not as far off as @Powderhorn@beehaw.org suspects. I feel like with ground source heat pumps, we have heating sorted, but we're still looking for solutions in power and wave seems the obvious solution.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's an investment problem. No one is doing scalable wave power because the money is in offshore wind.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 3 months ago

Such a shame given how much water covers the surface of this planet