• spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I could be remembering incorrectly but I recall seeing an article claiming that global oil consumption went UP a couple percent this year. Does this come from the manufacturing and installation of renewable products, you figure? If not, I don’t see an end to fossil fuels regardless of how many windmills and solar panels we produce.

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      7 months ago

      Wind and solar have mostly displaced coal, rather than oil