Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps?
credo@lemmy.world 1 week agoit’s transformed into some heat and some electricity, which is then used to power something that then transformed it into heat. The only solar energy that doesn’t heat up the planet is the one that is reflected back into space
if you use a watt of sunlight to power your phone instead of a watt of energy you got from burning coal, this watt of energy instead stays below earth and therefore doesn’t heat up the planet.
What?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Fossil fuels are carbon.
That carbon was requested from the atmosphere millions of years ago.
Burning fossil fuels releases that carbon into the atmosphere.
Think of oil as dead dinosaurs and coal as dead trees, that’s basically what it is.
All that stuff was taken out of circulation and period over an insanely long timeline, and now on a very short timeline we’re digging it up and putting it back into circulation. So fast that species can’t adapt to the change and die out before they can evolve.
credo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My highlights had nothing to do with fossil fuels.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This?
The “watt of energy” is a watt from the coal… And they’re saying to leave the coal buried and sequestered.
I assumed that was understood, so I explained how burning coal heats up the planet…
You may have not realized what you highlighted had to do with fossil fuels, but that’s just because you didn’t understand.
Which is fine, you did the right thing and asked questions.
credo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Grammatically, coal was not the subject of that sentence. But that’s fine, I see what OP was going for.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Burning coal doesn’t significantly heat the planet. The CO2 released by this causes solar heating to be more effective by trapping the escaping infrared radiation.