Solar panels quit the moment the sun goes down, and wind turbines slow to a crawl whenever the air goes still. That intermittency is the oldest knock against
We’re gonna get more rain in the winter and less in the summer according to a climate scientist that I follow on bsky. This is a good project even if our summers are getting drier. The sooner we leave fossil fuels behind, the better.
It’s not just about the missing summer rain, but about the glaciers vanishing. The Rhine comes from the Swiss alps. We’ll get torrential rainfalls and then droughts.
What I mean to say is instead of a nice constant water flow we’ll have way too much, then way too little.
Won’t work, not only because what the other dude said.
But also because the alps are getting unstable.
The permafrost keeping the mountain tops glued together is slowly melting away, making mud slides and other unpleasant sudden destruction events likelier every year.
If you wanna go ski in the alps do it soon, they will change their looks in the next decade(s).
Also probably not useful in a decade because Europe is drying out. We’re seeing droughts hitherto unfathomable.
Thou preachest!
We’re gonna get more rain in the winter and less in the summer according to a climate scientist that I follow on bsky. This is a good project even if our summers are getting drier. The sooner we leave fossil fuels behind, the better.
It’s not just about the missing summer rain, but about the glaciers vanishing. The Rhine comes from the Swiss alps. We’ll get torrential rainfalls and then droughts.
What I mean to say is instead of a nice constant water flow we’ll have way too much, then way too little.
Climate change is such a bitch.
Build a dam where the glaciers were? Also doesn’t desroy much there, unlike dams further down.
Won’t work, not only because what the other dude said. But also because the alps are getting unstable. The permafrost keeping the mountain tops glued together is slowly melting away, making mud slides and other unpleasant sudden destruction events likelier every year.
If you wanna go ski in the alps do it soon, they will change their looks in the next decade(s).
Won’t work because the rainfall won’t only happen where the glaciers were, so you would need several dams all the way up and down the rivers.
Oh, right.
Also the mountains are thawing, becoming unstable, so no building.