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With climate change looming, it seems so completely backwards to go back to using it again.

Is it coal miners pushing to keep their jobs? Fear of nuclear power? Is purely politically motivated, or are there genuinely people who believe coal is clean?


Edit, I will admit I was ignorant to the usage of coal nowadays.

Now I'm more depressed than when I posted this

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[–] Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (15 children)

It's an interesting take. I guess the sun is not renewable either.

Is any practically infinite (in human scales) source of energy called renewable? I am hearing this for the first time.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I don't understand this comment.

How is the sun not renewable?

Renewable energy means using renewable resources. Meaning things that either replenish themselves within a short enough period or things that produce massive amounts of energy over long periods of time.

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch -5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The sun will eventually explode.

[–] ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

It’s not big enough to explode, it’ll have a heat death

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