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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Is Solar and Wind a Blight on the Landscape?
Solar and wind are very low density sources of energy, so you have to have a lot of land. Even canada has hardly got enough land to produce renewable energy for its population. I don't like the idea of these birds being devastated by onshore and offshore wind. Windfarm spends first seven o eight years of its life earning back the energy that went into building the wind turbine. And only after that, is it net positive? A and even then, it's a huge investment of capital that be doing something else.
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