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Re:Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S... by WhompingWindows on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:07AM (#17293348)
It's understandable coming from Bloomberg, their MO is to drive up clicks/views. Is it technically untrue? Well, in this advanced economy with projected flat electricity demand, there isn't much growth in demand for utilities, except for replacing retiring stock like coal, nuclear, etc. It's simply a massively large industrial base that fossil fuels are leveraging day-in day-out, powering the vast majority of vehicles, airplanes, cement, steel, aluminum, plastics, and on and on. Electricity is one component of our emissions base, yes, but it's something like 25-30% of our emissions. Solar/wind/other non-fossil-fuels will take 100 years to fill all of the use-cases seen with current fossil fuels, and even then they still may be used in some niche applications.

Sadly, readers don't want to face the uncomfortable facts: we are still a fossil fuel civilization and will be for decades.

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