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[-] Eiri@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Wait they're still adding natural gas? Geez.

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The moment you realize that any clean energy we produce and have been producing for the last 20 years, that the renewable industry boomed exponentially, only serves as additive energy and not as a replacement for non-renewables, because our demands in energy have been exponentially ever-increasing since the 1950s, as the economy doubles in size every 20 years since then. So no matter the remarkable advances in solar and wind, we still needed more energy than that, because that's how exponents work.

But yeah, let's continue doing business as usual, this will definitely work.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I wish you were wrong. But...

[-] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 months ago

This was my first thought. I guess if you're replacing a coal plant it's not completely terrible, but be prepared to turn it off in 10 or 20 years.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

A Climate Town video convinced me natural gas actually manages to be worse.

Natural gas is methane, and it's extremely hard to handle that without having any leaks, ever. And since methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas, it doesn't take that much leaked gas to cross the line into "worse than coal".

And there are lots of leaks.

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