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Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by yodsanklai on Monday September 30, 2024 @05:48AM (#41695313)
> Although you insist that new sources "always come on top" you're either just observing that the chart was designed this way (facile) or you didn't look at the actual data closely.

I mean that new energy sources came in addition to existing ones. We consume as much wood as we ever did. Coal didn't reduce wood usage. Oil didn't reduce coal and so on...

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Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by Krssst on Monday September 30, 2024 @11:02AM (#41697968)
Nuclear did remove almost completely fossil fuels from the French electricity grid. Only example I know of of a grid that succeeded in getting rid of almost all fossil fuels. (transport and heating keep using a lot of fossils however)
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