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At Current Pace, U.S. Will Eliminate Fossil Fuels in 170 Years
- sharemywin 3y agoWe are way down from peak coal and its not really solar/wind that's taking it's place it natural gas. renewables usage has doubled in the last 10 years. In electricity generation. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us.php https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
- bryanlarsen 3y ago> renewables usage has doubled in the last 10 years. That really undersells the growth. 10 years ago it was basically all hydro, so solar and wind went from essentially 0 to 12%. That's not doubling, thats divide-by-zero error growth.
- jncfhnb 3y agoStupid article. Takes an exponential trend which it doesn’t show, and points at the fact that the linear version of it over the past 30 years is just a few percentage points per year.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoWell, I mean, it’s a rural Wyoming “news” site written by a contributor who routinely writes hit pieces on environmental groups. You get what you pay for.
- BizarroLand 3y agoWhat are you talking about? I ONLY trust REAL 100% American home grown "news" sites like "Cowboy State Daily Dot Com". It's the sole source of truth for 10s or even 11s of people world wide with a daily readership of hundreds!
- bryanlarsen 3y agoIf you linearly extrapolate from just last year, that number goes down to 20 years. If you exponentially extrapolate, that number goes down to 6 years. (This is for electricity generation, transport usage will take longer)