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jeffbee's unsourced numbers are probably not for UK. Worldwide coal provides a lot more power than wind [1], although of course it still produces more waste an
by clusterfish 6y ago
jeffbee's unsourced numbers are probably not for UK.
Worldwide coal provides a lot more power than wind [1], although of course it still produces more waste and pollution and everything per TWh than renewables.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-region https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
- jeffbee 6y agoIndeed, my figure is for the US. It's been coming down in recent years though. https://www.acaa-usa.org/Portals/9/Files/PDFs/2018-Charts.pdf https://www.acaa-usa.org/Portals/9/Files/PDFs/2018-Charts.pd...
- ben_w 6y agoMy point is more of: if even the UK can make coal less relevant than renewables, almost everyone can. The exceptions are practically rounding errors, even though Siberia is one of those regions that is worse than the UK and has 33 million people in it.