sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoSolar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st timeabcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square126linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareEther@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 days ago*stellar, not solar, the carbon in coal wasn’t formed by our sun but a different star far in the past
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 days agoYeah but the trees that made it into hydrocarbons were fuled by our sun.
minus-squareOhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 days agoNow you’re just splitting hairs. I mean we’d still call solar panels “solar panels,” even if they were collecting energy from another star (say, on an interstellar spaceship).
*stellar, not solar, the carbon in coal wasn’t formed by our sun but a different star far in the past
Yeah but the trees that made it into hydrocarbons were fuled by our sun.
Now you’re just splitting hairs. I mean we’d still call solar panels “solar panels,” even if they were collecting energy from another star (say, on an interstellar spaceship).