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Re:Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal citi... by rainbowmverse on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:52PM (#14395088)
What energy source is unsubsidized? It's definitely not fossil fuels.
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Re:Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal citi... by melling on Monday May 22, 2017 @04:28PM (#14396667)
This comment is often made without providing any detail. Can you provide some numbers, with references, for more discussion?
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Re:Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal citi... by rainbowmverse on Monday May 22, 2017 @05:39PM (#14397153)
For the US: https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/

The numbers are a bit out of date. All I could find other than that is a reference to a study in 2015 on Wikipedia, but it links to a page that's missing the data the reference was pointing to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies

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Re:Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal citi... by Udik on Monday May 22, 2017 @06:24PM (#14397367)
It's a long and complicated document, but from a quick scan it seems that most of the subsidies listed are directed towards either renewable energies and alternative fuels (ethanol, alcohol) or the distribution grid, so proportionally equal for all sources.
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