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[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 81 points 1 week ago

Some scientists think that the sun may be the source of most electricity.

I wish most electricity waa from renewable energy

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 55 points 1 week ago

Lots of it is generated by burning biologically sequestered solar energy from hundreds of millions of years ago.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Which is not renewable. Unless you can wait for a couple of million years.

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 19 points 1 week ago

not even then. the conditions that turned vegetation in to coal no longer exist

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

The process still exists, its just limited to rare environments, and will never be the scale as it once was.

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

The thing is that back in Carboniferous, there were the first trees but no decomposers for that so the process still exists but there are other processes that make it much more unlikely

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