Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil

Forester@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Other” being solar?

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  • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Solar, wind, geothermal and biofuels

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m surprised that solar isn’t yet big enough to be broken out on its own.

      I’m also surprised that natural gas is outgrowing everything else.

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      • kbin_space_program@kbin.run ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Natural gas is just Methabe and is being pushed by big oil, since it needs all of the infrastructure they already have.

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      • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We only recently developed the technology to make it more feasible. They used to just light it off and burn it at the wells when they would tap it.

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      • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        and that’s the problem. It’s not even enough of our power generation to be its own separate entity on the graph, but these people expect it to just magically power the planet in the next 5 years.

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can you provide the source of graph?

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  • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Specifically that one is from Wikipedia and is sited back to iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/…/meta From the article en.wikipedia.org/…/World_energy_supply_and_consum…

    tho other one is from ourworldindata.org

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you for providing that source. I appreciate it.

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      • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No problem

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