Scientists invented fabric that makes electricity from motion and sunlight. To create the fabric, researchers at Georgia Tech wove together solar cell fibers with materials that generate power from movement. It could be used in “tents, curtains, or wearable garments,” meaning we’d virtually never be without power. Source
Y'all are fucking idiots. Clean energy will NEVER be enough to replace the energy we have now. We’d have to tear down DOZENS of forests just to fit enough windmills and solar panels to get even a QUARTER (probably less, tbh) of the energy we can produce now.
Yeah, sure, when they’ve already calculated that a few square miles of panels in the empty ass Arizona desert could power the whole nation. But ok, fracking and the diminishing petroleum supply is worlds better.
Nevermind that windmills are often most efficient off the coast. There they take up no land, impact no trees, don’t pollute the water, and are conveniently located where winds are often strongest anyway.
And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.
But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.
Durr hurr technology is bad and I would rather light shit on fire than have clean energy
I can also testify to the Arizona desert being empty ass. And the California desert. And the Nevada desert.
also…no forests were cleared to make space for Denmark’s windmills and yet they regularly produce so much power that it covers almost all of the country’s power needs. Oh, and then there’s the times when the windmills generate 140% of Denmark’s power needs. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/10/denmark-wind-windfarm-power-exceed-electricity-demand
Friendly reminder that oil pipelines are a scam.
The fact that anyone can believe a limited amount of dinosaur oil is more plentiful and efficient than moving air or fucking sunlight is proof that entire populations can be completely brainwashed.
I live in the high desert of Oregon and nearly every new building and house in this tiny fucking town is made of solar panels. Yes, roofs made of solar panels. The homeowners will never need to pay an electric bill. BTW solar panels are fucking CHEAP. Oh, and if memory serves, only five square miles of solar panels in the Sahara Desert would provide enough electricity for half the world.
Denmark’s rows of wind turbines are cheap and look beautiful off the coastline. Also, they produce so much power that Denmark is energy independent and makes money by selling the excess power to Germany.
Also, the solar and wind power industries employ more workers than the coal industry. That’s not really that hard, because the coal industry has replaced most of its workers with robots - there are fewer coal miners in the US than there are people working for Arby’s.
States that have invested in these power sources are seeing a huge employment boom of jobs installing solar panels and working with turbines. And both jobs are much safer for the workers than mining coal, which is traditionally one of the deadliest jobs there is, both in the short and long terms.
Sun energy would give us up to 16.000 times the world needs. If we would use all of it
