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<blockquote data-quote="Whiskey_Clear" data-source="post: 321288" data-attributes="member: 735"><p>Tesla and dirty energy.....what do you consider to be dirty energy? Coal, nuke, natural gas? That tesla that gets plugged in at night could mostly be powered by one of the above. So why the heck should they be so heavily subsidized?</p><p></p><p>Musk is a big producer in solar. The champion "clean" energy. Except solar is very inefficient for large scale energy production. The manufacturing of the panels creates toxic waste, requires a lot of energy to produce (hello again coal power) which produces guess what..? ...greenhouse gasses lol. The manufacturing of them also requires rare earth metals.....which are expensive and...rare of course. The widespread use of these materials for production isn't going to help the scarcity or price of these materials.</p><p></p><p>Not to mention the fact that solar panels don't last forever, there is not an adequate means of recycling them, and they are adding toxins to our landfills.</p><p></p><p> Solar is a huge circle jerk until there is some technology breakthrough making them cleaner and more economically viable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whiskey_Clear, post: 321288, member: 735"] Tesla and dirty energy.....what do you consider to be dirty energy? Coal, nuke, natural gas? That tesla that gets plugged in at night could mostly be powered by one of the above. So why the heck should they be so heavily subsidized? Musk is a big producer in solar. The champion "clean" energy. Except solar is very inefficient for large scale energy production. The manufacturing of the panels creates toxic waste, requires a lot of energy to produce (hello again coal power) which produces guess what..? ...greenhouse gasses lol. The manufacturing of them also requires rare earth metals.....which are expensive and...rare of course. The widespread use of these materials for production isn't going to help the scarcity or price of these materials. Not to mention the fact that solar panels don't last forever, there is not an adequate means of recycling them, and they are adding toxins to our landfills. Solar is a huge circle jerk until there is some technology breakthrough making them cleaner and more economically viable. [/QUOTE]
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