sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoSolar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st timeabcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square130linkfedilinkarrow-up1944arrow-down18cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
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minus-squareEther@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 hours ago*stellar, not solar, the carbon in coal wasn’t formed by our sun but a different star far in the past
minus-squareOhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoNow you’re just splitting hairs. I mean we’d still call solar panels “solar panels,” even if they were collecting energy from another star (say, on an interstellar spaceship).
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoYeah but the trees that made it into hydrocarbons were fuled by our sun.
*stellar, not solar, the carbon in coal wasn’t formed by our sun but a different star far in the past
Now you’re just splitting hairs. I mean we’d still call solar panels “solar panels,” even if they were collecting energy from another star (say, on an interstellar spaceship).
Yeah but the trees that made it into hydrocarbons were fuled by our sun.