Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps?

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This?

  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.

  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.

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  • credo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you swim in an Olympic sized pool instead of a kiddie pool, this will give you a better experience

    Grammatically, coal was not the subject of that sentence. But that’s fine, I see what OP was going for.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But that’s fine, I see what OP was going for.

      Weird choice to downvote the person who helped you understand, but you do you I guess.

      It’s definitely convinced me not to spend anytime helping you in the future though. So maybe don’t be like this to the next person, Lemmy is small and there’s only so many people to help you, eventually you’ll run out.

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      • credo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I downvote those who downvote me. No worries, I didn’t really need your “help”.

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Participate pollution melts glaciers which increases the temperature long after it fucks shit up by trapping heat in the atmosphere and blocking photosynthesis.

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      • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just saying “watts staying underground” is a poor explanation. That’s an insignificant amount of energy compared to what the sun is delivering and what’s being trapped by CO2. “Carbon staying underground” is much more the priority.

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      • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s not really relevant. Fine particulate emissions from coal power plants, which are already mostly gone in the US but are still used around the world, don’t travel a really long distance.

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