And all it took was shutting down 300 coal plants over the last 10 years.
Great, but that doesn’t mean less coal is being burned. The article says the share of coal in the total power of the US has been halved over the last five years but again, how much less coal has been burned? That’s the important part.
Only speaking in parts tends to miss this:
On a global scale, energy sources cumulate, they don’t replace each other.
You’re right, there isn’t enough replacing going on. Fossil production must be reduced.
All to be eaten by glutton data centers. Ugh.
Or torn up by braianwashed regressives.
Here’s some reading for you about who’s trying to mislead who: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_denial
Tell me you didn’t watch the video(s) without telling me you didn’t watch the video.
If it’s about capacity factor then most people know about that by now.
I’ve posted a TL;DR somewhere on the thread already and I don’t recall Alec mentioning “capacity factor”, but maybe he referred to the same concept by a different name.
You dint know what capacity factor is? Is the main criteria used for comparing different types of power sources.
I genuinely couldn’t believe it. Wow.
but experts say coal emits carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and several other pollutant
What the hell is this crap reporting. It’s not like this is a contested fact or an opinion.But what about “clean coal”? Checkmate, Atheists!
Ah yes, whitewashed coal !
“Experts say power plants ‘burn coal to convert water into steam.’”
I mean, does anyone really know how these things operate?
The tide comes in. The tide goes out.
Water, fire, air and dirt; fucking magnets, how do they work?
You can’t explain that!
Omg, I’ve explained this so many times on here. The tide comes in because the tide goes out. See? Everything has an explanation.
This is actually a pretty major indictment on the US. Coal is one of the worst most inefficient fuel sources for power generation, virtually every other fuel source is an improvement including incineration of food waste.
A good test of how efficient fuel is is to see how much of it you still have left after you’ve theoretically burnt all of it. The fact that coal smoke is black is a pretty good indication of how bad it is. You’re throwing away a good chunk of your fuel.
I love the trivia that there’s traces of uranium in coal which go up with the smoke - coal is worse than nuclear in terms of radiological pollution.
This is an often misquoted fact. The study that compared coal and nuclear was only studying air pollutants, and obviously the steam stacks from nuclear reactors don’t have as much radionuclide pollutants as coal. However, the study did not look at other sources like wastewater - which is where most radionuclide pollution from nuclear reactors comes from (along with other sources like spent fuel, casings, and moderator rods).
Sure, but I assume it’s easier to collect wastewater for proper disposal than the air pollutants.
bUt WhAtAbOuT wHeN iT’s nIghTime u sTUpId LIbS!?!?!
-MF’s who have never heard of a battery
they’re also getting the benefits of solar, despite voting for the moron nixing renewables while peddling coal and oil.
States won by President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election accounted for 74% of all solar capacity installed in the first quarter
“Pffft … batteries are for toys … my delusions tell me the following pictures are fake because I say so and I don’t need to prove anything because jesus tells me petroholics like me are always right:”
Obviously fake, everybody knows that batteries are ruined by rain. Just like magnets.
Next you’re gonna tell me that the Moon can come out during the day!
Heard a fantastic quote this morning for people with similar believes:
This are the same people who ask ChatGPT what time it is
Beautiful !
I’ve unironically met people who use ChatGPT for everything. (and who unironically now think magnets are turned off by water since the president said it)
Like I literally had coffee with someone who while we were chatting they mentioned that they “asked ChatGPT if the place was queer friendly” before they agreed to go out for coffee.
It’s like bro, did the pride flags year round not tip you off? The maps link literally has pictures of the place with snow on the ground and pride flags in the windows!
So many people have forgotten how to think and it’s infuriating. They’ll believe a chatbot before their own eyes.
That’s great and all, but I’m still waiting for it to be affordable to install my own so that it can also be a whole-house uninterruptible power supply.
Obviously it depends on your use case but at least for me having an uninterruptible power supply for the maybe one day in 4 years that I have a power cut, it isn’t worth it unless the installation cost is negligible.
I think for most people putting a few panels on the roof is probably good enough. Especially if they end up getting an electric car in the end which can do reverse charging.
Electrical energy. You’re still not getting off fossil fuels for a long time, the only way is either we all live in car-less 300sq.ft condos with no windows and central laundry, or population reduces drastically.
The MAGA response “No it didn’t! No it didn’t! Fox and The Anointed One didn’t say so! Fake news! Fake news!”
Coal is black and dusty, solar panels are black and clean, it’s clean coal as promised!
In spite of the idiocracy
Solar is more efficient. The corporations will move over to the most efficient power source regardless of what the administration may or may not want. Continuing to use coal just to appease Trump is stupid.
Anyway they can just lie and say that they are using coal for everything, it’s not like anyone is going to check
Surprised the Pedo-in-Chief doesn’t immediately halt this so he can get more money from the coal lobbyists
He’s been trying! Courts keep overturning it but it’s been on and off for both wind and solar construction
