The “Real Life Lore” channel did a vid a few months back about why covering the Sahara with solar panels is technologically impossible, and even if it weren’t how it would cause an ecological disaster FAR worse than what the greenies think they’re fixing by using solar

Correct. There is no such thing as “free power”. You HAVE to pay a price, one way or another, for every form of power, in the form of some kind of pollution or wastage. Even fusion and hydrogen require such sacrifices. You can’t start a fusion reaction without a fission reaction (at least, given the technology that we have available to us), and hydrogen is very hard to refine, transport, and store. But they are still cleaner, by far, than solar and wind.

I saw an article a few years back that pointed out that the amount of silver required to manufacture enough solar panels to cover something like 5% of the Sahara would exceed the total estimated amount of silver that exists in the earth’s entire crust — not just what would be economically feasible to mine, but all of it.

Quite right. And not only that, but what about all of the “rare earth minerals” – which aren’t actually all that rare – which would have to be mined for the batteries, capacitors, and solar panels? And the fact that the plastics and composites used in making wind turbines can’t be recycled, and when they degrade, they leach toxins into the landfill soil and out into the wider environment?

The whole “green energy” dream is nothing more than a colossal scam. It annoys me no end to see how many people have fallen for it. Every part of the idea is just monumentally stupid.

It’s like the Brodello shirt broscience Dom is hectoring: “For when your persona is defined by a six-pack”
—-His Royal Codpiece: ‘When your persona is defined by baseline male anatomical function’—-

What surprises me is that very few people ever point out that there’s an underlying assumption that solar panels are now and would be immediately available in the quantities that these plans assume would be needed, no thought on where the materials would be mined, manufactured, transported, etc. I saw an article a few years back that pointed out that the amount of silver required to manufacture enough solar panels to cover something like 5% of the Sahara would exceed the total estimated amount of silver that exists in the earth’s entire crust — not just what would be economically feasible to mine, but all of it. But sure, we can just crank out that amount of solar panels to fulfil the wishful fantasies of the greenies…..