Green energy mitigation

In LiberaWorld, all you have to do to demonstrate you are a Good Person is to talk about "Green" or something ending -ibble, usually "renewibble". In ConservaWorld, you just grunt "boondoggle". Some of the smarter of the latter point out that solar panels degrade leaving a lot of toxic waste, and that windmill blades can't be recycled either - and, also, julienne the birds. Since Planet of the Humans the former should at least not be talking about "biofuel" (= wood).

Add to the above, the Green Ibbles are competing with improved ash-capture from coal and general improvements in nuclear fission.

Everyone benefits from better energy storage and efficiencies. But those are being drunk up by AI farms these days. So energy production remains necessary.

Over on LinkedIn, although I might not have the links, some of the Green Ibbles have taken to heart some of the naysayers.

Bad solar panels are being reused for less-efficient local purposes, like powering a lightbulb in a bus shelter and/or serving as a roof. Meanwhile work is being done to make windmill blades more visible to birds, like painting some of them to different colours. Or there's the idea not to spread the blades over wide areas. Blades can also be more biodegradeable.

The panel-to-shelter idea seems like cope. I like the windmill ideas though. They still won't scale and remain vulnerable to ice, but at least their pollution / kill rate will be lower.

BACKDATE 11/20