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Re:Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power by jeffreyrogers on Monday July 27, 2020 @12:31PM (#23966659)
At least 40% of the renewables used in Europe (I think it is over 60% now) is biomass, so it's arguable how renewable it really is.
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Re:Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power by guerby on Monday July 27, 2020 @03:39PM (#23968620)
renewable energy including wood for heating yes.

But for electricity it's only about 6% in the EU, see table page 7 of the following PDF:

https://www.agora-energiewende.de/fileadmin2/Projekte/2018/E...

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Re:Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power by ericd on Monday July 27, 2020 @09:01PM (#23971188)
Pretty sure that's renewable. I think renewable just means we can replace it/make more of it, which isn't the case with oil. You can renew the supply.
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Re:Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power by jeffreyrogers on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:04PM (#23978005)
It depends how fast you use them. Are we using biomass at faster than replacement rate? Probably. And cutting down forests for biomass does irreparable damage to forest ecosystems.
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Re:Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power by cbmuser on Monday July 27, 2020 @07:02PM (#23970421)
Which cause 290 grams of CO2 per kWh according to IPCC unlike nuclear which just accounts for 12 grams of CO2 per kWh.
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