That’s a different question.
For electricity, nuclear uses far less land than solar or wind per TWh. Ground mounted solar is roughly 50–100× more land intensive; wind with spacing is even higher. Comparing energy farms to a McDonald’s or a data center is apples to oranges. The relevant comparison is how much land you need for the same amount of power.
Panels and turbines last decades. Nuclear lasts longer and is dramatically lighter on materials per TWh delivered. Energy density + high capacity factor means far less steel, concrete, and mining per unit of firm power.
Intermittent systems just move more mass around the planet for the same output.
The sun and wind will outlive us by billions of years, sure.
But the panels, turbines, grids, storage and materials needed to actually use them at scale won’t.
Intermittency (not always sunny or windy), high material intensity, land use, recycling limits and rising system costs are the real long-term constraints not the resource itself.
Solar and wind are more material-intensive per unit of average power. Do you have any idea how much material is needed to build the infrastructure and maintain it?
@RebekkaAdams198@MrDigit In the entire country, there are less than a 1000 vehicles that are less than 15k, 5 years or newer, under 50k miles.
Almost 2/3rds are:
Kia Soul/Forte
Mitsubishi Mirage
Nissan Versa/Kicks
Maybe there is a reason all of the cheap cars are the basically the same vehicle?
You do not understand how it works. The price of the vehicle is meaningless unless you know the other variables.
If they own a car for 16k and it's not selling, they can keep dropping it but the money still has to come from somewhere. Most likely UA your trade which just moves the cost from one column to the next. You're looking at it thinking it's as easy as 1+1 = 2. It's not...
You are wrong but ignorance is bliss right?
@RebekkaAdams198@MrDigit The issue that you seem to be missing is those prices are only a few thousand off original msrp. 3 year old lease turn ins with original msep of $24-$25K were mid teens. Now you are paying mid teens for original msrp of $18-20k
Lady, I'm looking in a 500 mile radius of my location. There is a 7-8 million used car shortage in the USA.
Apparently you think random vehicles thousands of miles away proves your point. I live in this world and I'm telling you one more time so hopefully it will get through your thick skull...
Cars produced and leased in 2020–2022 should now be the affordable 4–6-year-old vehicles flooding dealer lots. But far fewer new vehicles were built and leased then. Today, that leaves a shortage exactly where most used-car buyers shop. Off-lease supply also remains below pre-pandemic levels. Cox Automotive
Other forces are keeping prices high:
New vehicles average nearly $50,000, pushing more buyers toward used cars.
Affordable inventory is especially scarce. Vehicles below $15,000 recently had only 33 days’ supply versus 45 days overall.
Dealers are paying elevated auction prices, then adding transportation, inspections, tires, brakes, repairs and detailing.
Buyers are competing hardest for reliable compact cars and older affordable vehicles—the exact segments with the least supply.
Financing magnifies the pain: the average used-car APR was 11.43% in Q1 2026.
The average used listing price reached $26,918 in May, up 6% year over year, although some of that increase came from fewer cheap cars and more near-new SUVs in the mix. Cox Automotive
@RebekkaAdams198@MrDigit I'm in the car industry. Yes there are always "cheaper" options on paper. That 16k kia was under 10k a few years ago. It's a piece of shit that is going to need repairs, shorter loan and relatively higher per month payment.