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How to double the country’s power, no land required (i.stuff.co.nz)
submitted 1 year ago by d3Xt3r to c/newzealand
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While this looks promising, I'm not sure I like the idea of introducing more plastic into our waterways. Does anyone know if our filteration systems are capable of filtering out micro/nanoplastics?

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[–] Rangelus 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I applaud the initiative in finding new solutions to the problem of power generation and power cost to consumers. However, surely there are better locations. Wind farms on the many hills around the motu, solar farms on the ocean, wave power, etc.

[–] Ilovethebomb 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's also a lot of land that has very little economic value in terms of agricultural potential, where solar would be a very good use of the land.

Land like that typically isn't very flat though.

[–] livus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree with your general point but I just want to add a caveat

land that has very little economic value in terms of agricultural potential

Native environment is also a good use of land.

I think globally we're just at the "and find out" stage of realizing that actually, there is a value in the earth being its natural self, and an economic price to pay if not enough of it is.

[–] Rangelus 1 points 1 year ago

Yes very true. One reason I like wind farms, is they tend to be most profitable in areas where land is useful for little outside of forestry.