I mean outside of nuclear and geothermal it’s all from the sun
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lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Some scientists think that the sun may be the source of most electricity.
I wish most electricity waa from renewable energy
mayo_cider@hexbear.net 1 month ago
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Lots of it is generated by burning biologically sequestered solar energy from hundreds of millions of years ago.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Which is not renewable. Unless you can wait for a couple of million years.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 2 months ago
not even then. the conditions that turned vegetation in to coal no longer exist
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The process still exists, its just limited to rare environments, and will never be the scale as it once was.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 2 months ago
One of my favorite insane conspiracy theories is that petroleum is constantly produced and is a renewable resource but that fact is hidden from us because it would mean “they” wouldn’t be able to impose carbon taxes and create more profit from other energy sources.
MBech@feddit.dk 2 months ago
I suppose it isn’t completly a lie. It just takes 100 million years under some pretty specific circumstances, but there’s likely places where it’s currently being produced naturally right now…
ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 2 months ago
The planet can, maybe the next species of critters to pick up a pointy stick can make use of it after it resets itself.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 months ago
Well technically its still electricity created by the sun. Plants absorbed Carbon dioxide, turned it into carbon with the power of the sun, died and got buried deep below.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yes, that’s what they said.