Re:US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% ...
by fulafel on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:22AM
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To mitigate the ongoing climate catastrophe we must ramp down fossil fuels use and production. As long as there's fossil fuels in the electricity production mix, electricity use is contributes to the problem. This report tells us that fossil energy use is increasing as only 60% of the increase was covered by solar.
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Re:US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% ...
by njarboe on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:12PM
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The world would much more easily transition to post fossil fuel if all of society was pushing for cleaner and cheaper electricity and a philosophy of using more to make life better. The attitude that we must reduce is just anti-progress and anti-human and is what many people are fighting against when they support more fossil fuels. The split of solar and wind being supported by the reduce camp and fossil fuel use into the growth mindset was a great tragedy.
Re:US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% ...
by fulafel on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:14PM
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Accelerating fossil fuel usage and while adding renewables to the mix is not going to pan out well. Accelerating the climate catastrophe is not pro-human. It might be pro-progress for some definition I guess if you don't mind the death toll.
Re:US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% ...
by njarboe on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:39PM
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Few people just want to burn fossil fuels, they want to do things with energy. Focus should be on making non-CO2 emitting energy cheap and abundant. Most people against burning fossil fuel are also not promoting more and cheaper energy use.