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The article is misleading. Here's the EIA article it references: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34472 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detai
by ZenoArrow 9y ago
The article is misleading.
Here's the EIA article it references:
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34472 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34472
Here's another EIA article that suggests that electricity derived from natural gas is on the rise in the US:
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=29732 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=29732
I'm all for renewables, but twisting the facts does not help skeptics take renewables more seriously.
- gipp 9y agoDisagree... Your second link cites 11.2 GW of new NG capacity for 2017, which is less than the 11.8 GW of retired fossil-fuel capacity over the same time (per the original article). Besides which, saying that the vast majority of net capacity increase is in renewables doesn't mean that fossil sources aren't also going up. In fact, unless it's 100% of new capacity, fossil fuel sources are definitely going up, by definition. There's no real conflict or twisting the facts there.
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