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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago
  • Spend 100 years building fossil fuel infrastructure

Conservatives: "Sorry, but the free market has spoken."

  • Spend twenty years building green infrastructure

Conservatives: "Subsidies! China! WOKE! I'm going to boycott electricity!"

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-production-by-source?time=1997..latest&country=%7ENLD

It's crazy how Coal and Gas literally (inversely) mirrored each other, right until 2020 where Wind and Solar just took up the task of Coal

It's interesting to note that Big Oil hasn't really changed much in the Netherlands over the last 30 years, but Big Coal and big Gas was their main backbone

[-] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago
[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Didn't make this graph, so not sure why it's spaced like that

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago
[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

The current year is likely omitted since they don't have the full year's data yet.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If they manage to do something for the first time a second time that would be nuts.

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

That would party rock pretty hard. Get thee behind me, linear time!

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