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Fast Facts: Recently Portugal powered it's entire country with just renewable energy! :D There's a giant ball of fire in the sky called the sun. It produces all the energy we need, we just need to build more solar panels to harness it. And if that's not enough we got wind it blows everywhere. If these froms of energy are utilized enough, fossil fuels will become a thing of the past.

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Yeah so you wouldn't want a dam built on a river stream where salmon migrate. But yeah in the grand sceme hydro is better than fossil fuel because climate change will kill way more animals

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Geothermal is getting energy from hot spots in the earth like geysers and lava. I remember hearing about it in highschool years ago because I was like woah we can get electricity from volacanos! But i don't know about any negative effects other than the natural effects of the lava that would occur regardless of human activity.

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But regardless geothermal will never be a big factor in any country's energy supply because there are only so many hotspots to harness.

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Well doin some quick initial research, Geothermal can be bad for the environment depending on how the power plant is constructed. Because it could emit toxins like methane and sulfur into the air and water if not properly contained. So I would have to be mostly against using geothermal. Though supposedly some geothermal plants are constructed in a way that does contain the pollutants.

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Switching over to renewable energy would be amazing long-term, but in the short term it would be really expensive. Putting up all those solar panels in, say, Nevada's deserts would cost a ton. You'd also have to be able to transfer that power to every part of the country, which would likely require a fairly complex network of transfer substations and such.

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There's also the economic ramifications of largely foregoing fossil fuels. Texas and Alaska are largely dependent on selling and shipping oil to other states; if there were suddenly a huge drop in oil demand their economies would be in dire straits. If we switch from gasoline/diesel-powered vehicles to pure electic, then we'd need to set up a LOT more electric charging stations.

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This could be really expensive too, as the ubiquity of gas stations would need to be rivaled by charging stations to make the prospect of buying an electric car seem appealing to the average consumer. Overall I agree that steps need to be taken to gradually shift towards clean energy and remove our reliance on oil/fossil fuels, but I can see why it hasn't happened yet: the cost is too high atm.

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The expenses don't matter when the whole world is on the brink of chaos. And yes Global Warming is that big of a deal so forget the costs they means nothing compared to how many buildings, homes, farms, and lives will be destroyed by Global Warming. That being said we can put solar panels anywhere really. Germany uses solar panels and that country ain't too sunny.

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I agree with you, but the reality is that people don't want to invest in something that could take more than a decade to yield profits. There could be any number of complications that could make the process take longer (thus, cost more money) and investors wouldn't be willing to take that kind of financial risk. As for the government, they have crazy debt already and also don't want to invest in

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something that would take several years to complete. In the cases of Germany and Portugal, they're much smaller countries with significantly fewer people living there (I believe I read somewhere years ago that NYC, Los Angelos, and San Francisco together have a higher population than some European countries, but I'm not too sure on the legitimacy of that).

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Those countries require far less energy to meet consumer consumption than the USA does, so clean energy is a lot more appealing to them. They'd have to put up significantly fewer solar panels/wind turbines (wind is very abundant in many areas in Europe) so it'd cost far less money and time. The USA consumes so much energy day-to-day that clean energy just isn't realistic right now w/o massive

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investments. As I said before, it could (and should) be done. Realistically speaking though, it's just not feasible for private investors or the US government to invest in it. It would likely cost billions of dollars and several years of construction/networking to cover most of the country (dunno how they'd connect Hawaii, Alaska, and other US territories like Samoa & Puerto Rico).

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i agree that companies wouldn't do it willingy. The government has to do it and right now are congress is filled with politicians who are bought by companies. So the solution is to pass an amendment to the constitution to stop bribery in politics so that the government does what the people want instead of what corporations want. For funding we can divert the billions of dollars spent in dumb wars.

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PS there is a group trying to pass such an amendment, I should know I do volunteer work for them

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The thing is, it's not technically called "bribery" in this case. Special Interest Groups fund political officials' re-election campaigns, so if they want to keep their jobs they oftentimes need to keep their Interest Groups satisfied. Unfortunately, this is sometimes contrary to what their constituents want. Banning bribery wouldn't do much; regulating Interest Groups is what needs doing.

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If you were hypothetically a Senator that got elected in large part due to an oil Interest Group's very generous donations, pushing for clean energy would be tantamount to commiting political suicide. As soon as your term ended you wouldn't get support from that SIG and they'd fund an opponent to run against and replace you, thereby undoing whatever progress you tried to make.

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So long as Special Interest Groups maintain so much influence in our political system, politicians will never be able to fully advocate what their constituents desire. It's really unfortunate and needs to be regulated more closely imo.

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That's why the group I volunteer for is trying to get an amendment to stop all political donations. Elections should be funded by a small tax. So far 5 states have agreed we need 30 more to pass the amendment

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I can certainly agree with that. Hopefully it passes sooner rather than later.

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If you are interested in helping the amendment pass, check the private message I'm about to send you. No pressure to join just giving you the option.

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