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Sharing this post from mildyinteresting Community because I think you’ll be interested in it over here in the solarpunk community
Sorry if I have accidentally reposted it
There are differences, obviously, but I don’t know which of those differences would make one of them natural. Nature didn’t create either of them; they are both man-made constructions.
But using your intuitions, which one do you think the person responded to above meant as more natural?
Probably the one that doesn’t use electricity, right?
It feels like being obtuse for no reason.
You are correct
I used the words “natural technology” because it felt like the best word to describe natural solutions like the air tower in the image
So, electricity is unnatural and hence bad? Is that the point being made here? Because the original opinion was that we should focus on natural solutions over artificial ones, and I asked the question in an effort to understand why they would say that.
Instead of arguing against a guess (or “intuition”) of what they mean, I think it’s constructive to find out exactly what they mean first. That way we’re not just talking past one another in the typical, polarized internet fashion.
That’s not what being said at all
Electricity is a form of energy but its created using other forms of energy and there are losses from conversion becsuse we don’t have 100% efficency so it would be better to use other forms of energy that are naturally present when possible to avoid losses of energy from converting them to electricity
Then you only need to use electricity as necessary