Then why did it take until 1859 for human population to start trending up and reach 8 billion?
I’ll help you: oil. The ancient Romans had geothermal, wide, tide, solar, and hydro as well.
They had the exact same energy we do now. The difference is we have power, they didn’t.
I’ll help you again. You can’t fertilize crops with electricity, or make plastic.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
we havnt tapped into geothermal like scifi does, we have the other ones though.
NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 4 days ago
One or two of them, or all of them individually, aren’t explicitly as competitive as existing non-renewables, sure. But together.
Geothermal is very good option for some for reducing their electricity demand for heating and cooling their homes.
Home solar doesn’t fully cover everyone’s electricity demand for their homes, sure, but can greatly reduce the demand for it of it doesn’t cover it outright.
rakete@feddit.org 3 days ago
Geothermal very often uses fracking, too. Difference might only be a bit higher depth it’s used in.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 days ago
Except that nuclear is not economically viable.
Tja@programming.dev 4 days ago
Huh? France seems to be doing OK.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 days ago
I should mention, that building new nuclear reactors is not financially a viable option.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
I didn’t mention nuclear
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 days ago
You didnt but the person you replied to
0x0@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Give it the same subsidies Big Oil has then… and i’d rather have clean energy that “economically viable” dirty energy.