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Scientists invented fabric that makes electricity from motion and sunlight. To create the fabric, researchers at Georgia Tech wove together solar cell fibers with materials that generate power from movement. It could be used in “tents, curtains, or wearable garments,” meaning we’d virtually never be without power. Source

Y'all are fucking idiots. Clean energy will NEVER be enough to replace the energy we have now. We’d have to tear down DOZENS of forests just to fit enough windmills and solar panels to get even a QUARTER (probably less, tbh) of the energy we can produce now.

Yeah, sure, when they’ve already calculated that a few square miles of panels in the empty ass Arizona desert could power the whole nation. But ok, fracking and the diminishing petroleum supply is worlds better.

Nevermind that windmills are often most efficient off the coast. There they take up no land, impact no trees, don’t pollute the water, and are conveniently located where winds are often strongest anyway.

And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.

But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.

Durr hurr technology is bad and I would rather light shit on fire than have clean energy

I can also testify to the Arizona desert being empty ass. And the California desert. And the Nevada desert. 

also…no forests were cleared to make space for Denmark’s windmills and yet they regularly produce so much power that it covers almost all of the country’s power needs. Oh, and then there’s the times when the windmills generate 140% of Denmark’s power needs. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/10/denmark-wind-windfarm-power-exceed-electricity-demand

Friendly reminder that oil pipelines are a scam.

People like @scarletgoldenthorn don’t know a fucking thing. I was in Netherlands and all across many highways were windmills. When you drive into the countryside where there’s just land, guess what they put there? Windmills. They we’re everywhere creating energy not bothering a fucking soul.

And here’s some science for that ass: according to RESEARCH AND FACTS, it would take about 600k windmills to power America. That’s about the size of Rhode Island. That’s 775,900 acres. Nevada alone is 70.7628 million acres and it’s 90% empty. That’s just Nevada!! America has 340+ million acres of crop land (where food is planted and grown), 780+ million of range and pasture land (where livestock are kept again for food) and 740+ million acres of forrest land. Any combination of these land masses can be used to house the windmills needed AND THEN SOME! And we haven’t even started talking about offshore windmills that we would need LESS of but would produce MORE energy than onshore windmills. We can totally do this but the oil industry has our government by the nutsacks. So stop watching Fox News, educate yourself, vote out people who won’t get shit down and vote in those who will because

the peace that you’ll gain will replace everything you’ve ever lost