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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by fulafel on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @03:37AM (#42315606)
Depends on whether you're talking about Europe the continent or eg the EU, though "many" if of course a vague enough claim to be technically true for any corner of the world.

But relateedly, US household energy expenditure is enormous compared to other countries and a lot of it is burning fossil fuels to run AC. There's a big money vs ethics tradeoff going the wrong way for emissions, more so from being a huge oil producer.

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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by rootusrootus on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @02:37PM (#42321181)
> burning fossil fuels to run AC

I'm interested in the numbers behind this. The location and timing of most air conditioning needs correlates strongly with the availability of PV. At this point I would have guessed that heating is strongly reliant on fossil fuels (and will be for many years to come) and air conditioning will be much greener.

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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by zeroonetwothree on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @06:55PM (#42323360)
It’s not ideal because peak temperatures are in the late afternoon, when the sun is lower in the sky. And continues into early evening.
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