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Originally Posted by peter12
I am absolutely not sold on the solar farms initiative. Maybe one day we will develop the infrastructure to create some sort of energy free market whereby individual homes are fitted on with solar panels, and then buy/sell power on an online market, but these fantasies of converting hectares of usable land into giant sun plantations is just ridiculous.
It seems like the ethanol of the 2000s.
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So why do you have to start your sentence with maybe? It's not maybe we will, we CAN develop that. The technology already exists in a raw form. Why aren't we doing it? Why aren't we developing that? If you agree that it is a future possibility, why not drive towards it? Why not take some of those subsidies for O&G and throw them at Tesla so Alberta can be on top of it when it does?
As for ethanol, there are many reasons why it works and should be used in place of gasoline. Brazil is on 80% ethanol fuel and most cars can already use it. Lobby groups that have made things like using any fuel in your car but gasoline, and modifying the computer in your car to allow for alcohol fuel illegal, along with a wide-spread campaign of misinformation about its by-products, are the reasons we don't use it. It really has nothing to do with problems with the fuel itself, it's our systems that aren't allowing the funds or knowledge to move in the proper direction.