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'Unstoppable force' of solar power propels world to 40% clean electricity

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177 points belter | 1 comments | 08 Apr 25 10:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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ck2 ◴[08 Apr 25 17:32 UTC] No.43624328[source]▶
Meanwhile in the USA the whitehouse just bailed out the coal industry.
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1. mrguyorama ◴[08 Apr 25 20:37 UTC] No.43626197[source]▶
Actually no, coal is still going to die in the US unless China sells us their coal for dirt cheap.

You get more watts per human labor hour with our abundant natural gas reserves. No matter how cheap you drive labor, it will still be more economical to use that labor to drill wells.

Coal was always dying, especially in the US, because of economic concerns. It's a stupid source of energy.

The fact that anyone in the US even thinks of coal is absurd. There are maybe 60k coal miners in the US. It hasn't mattered in decades.