The BIGGEST problem with clean energy

Physics Girl, I'm sorry to tell you, you are wrong storage is not the biggest issue.  And the renewable energy experts aren't going to tell you what the biggest issues are, because they know that the REAL serious problems are what make virtually all our "eco" energy technologies non starters.  



1.  Infrastructure.  Solar and wind are very low density energy sources, building and maintaining solar and wind will take 100 times the infrastructure.  That means 100x the steel and materials, 100x the manpower to maintain, and probably 1000x the space requirements.  This will cost, hundreds of trillions of dollars, and in the case of solar will need to be replaced ever 15 years.  This is not even close to being sustainable.  
2.  Toxic waste.  Producing solar panels and li-ion batteries creates a lot of toxic waste currently.  If we were to ramp up solar panel production to the point where it would actually generate a significant amount of our energy consumption, we would need to deal with an astronomical amount of toxic chemical waste.  And because solar has a 25 year lifespan and need to be replaced (which btw, makes them NOT renewable) this toxic waste nightmare will be an ongoing concern.



You want me to believe like I once did that this channel is about science and not zealotry, have some courage, and make a serious video examining these issues while being open to the possibility that you could be very wrong and on the wrong side of history with this.