Wind and solar

Sometimes it seems that those supporting the new green deal do not fully understand what they are proposing. Do they realize that charging an electric vehicle with electricity from a fossil fuel power plant is inefficient. That the mining and disposing of the materials used to build wind and solar is harmful to the environment. That we are exchanging clean air for dirty water. That solar panels receive sun on average 10 hours per day and wind mills get wind about 12 hours per day and both systems need back up. That wind and solar farms take up lots of space and are a long way from the usage point and that requires miles of power lines. That airplanes, ocean liners, railroad locomotives and heavy construction equipment cannot run on batteries. The sad part is that while all of this attention in showered on wind and solar the use of thorium nuclear power is being pushed onto the back burner. This would supply all the carbon free electric power needed without harming the environment and the plants could be built near the usage point.