Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record

Re:Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the fir... by porphyra on Monday April 21, 2025 @03:54PM (#43755777)

I personally think that it is amazing that we are likely going to shift away from fossil fuels out of pure capitalistic greed. Trying to convince people to give up fossil fuels out of some altruistic desire to save the planet was never gonna work.

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Re:Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the fir... by jandrese on Monday April 21, 2025 @04:31PM (#43756137)

If you want to change the world you need to align the incentives.

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Re:Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the fir... by ZeroGravitas on Monday April 21, 2025 @04:55PM (#43756365)

It has been the smart economic decision for a decade or more already. Capitalistic greed caused some to spread FUD around that issue, deny there was a problem and attack several useful tools for dealing with it.

The fact that capitalistic greed has caught up with reality a decade later after most of the hard work was done and is now fighting on both sides of the issue is somewhat tragic.

Doubly so if you consider what it means about every other global problem we face that might affect a powerful incumbent's short term profits.

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Re:Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the fir... by pests on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @12:27AM (#43759072)

Capitalism can solve anything it just needs to be directly threatened. Far off future maybes aren’t enough.

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