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How would heating with electricity generate any CO2 if it were sourced from Solar or Wind?

• hprotagonist 7y ago
  It wouldn’t, but man do we still burn a lot of coal in the US for electric plants.
  • scarejunba 7y ago
    Not in California. And California overproduces power by state law.
    • hprotagonist 7y ago
      https://www.snl.com/web/client?auth=inherit#news/article?id=34113318&KeyProductLinkType=0&cdid=A-34113318-14128 https://www.snl.com/web/client?auth=inherit#news/article?id=... coal is always kind of lurking in the background though.
• ars 7y ago
  Because you can not pin down the source of electricity that way. It's all mixed together.
• mehrdadn 7y ago
  Well the creation of the necessary metals and semiconductors would probably generate CO2... but I don't know how much.
  • abdullahkhalids 7y ago
    > Based on that study, solar PV works out to about 50g of CO2 per kWh compared to coal's 975g of CO2 per kWh, or about 20x "cleaner." [1] [1] https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/how-much-co2-does-one-solar-panel-create https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/ho...