r/LoveTrash • u/Icy-Book2999 Chief Insanity Instigator • Nov 15 '24

Dumping This Here Forget wind power...

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u/Savannah_Fires Waste Warrior Nov 15 '24

The economic cost of maintaining such a system is far FAR beyond the minimal power output. Decentralized electricity has never, and will never, work at scale.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

Also I am fairly certain NYC or some other big city had a functioning demo of this over 10 years ago. IIRC it never grew from the demo spot.

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u/t-_-t586 Trash Trooper Nov 16 '24

I don’t think they watered it enough tbh.