Re:EU electricity production by country and source
by jdthedisciple on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:41AM
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That's fine for your home, but not when you extend your gaze to where all those items are actually produced: Industries.
Re:EU electricity production by country and source
by exact_string on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:44AM
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I think the point of "But it is only electricity" means that _currently_ the situation is not as good as one might think based on electricity production.
Re:EU electricity production by country and source
by shapefrog on Sunday November 06, 2022 @07:47AM
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To quote from elsewhere.
“Coal-fired power stations emit over 10 Gt of carbon dioxide each year,[4] about one fifth of world greenhouse gas emissions, so are the single largest cause of climate change”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-fired_power_station
The counter factual; if the 60% of electricity coming form wind or sunshine at this instant was from coal, then 10 Gt of carbon dioxide each year becomes 20/30/40/50 Gt of carbon dioxide each year and global emmisions are significantly more than what they are now.
Purely hypothetical, but it is where we were.
Of course, however, is there anything where the conversion has been from electic to petrol / gas / coal? My car is going electic, my bolier is going electric. This isnt new, it has been the path of travel for a while now.
Unless Nvidia has really f'd up their calculations my 5090 graphics card isnt going to be coal powered.