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The US EIA government has a chart on coal usage since 1950 (below). Eyeballing the graph, peak US coal was in 2007 with a pretty sharp decline since then. Sinc
by 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
The US EIA government has a chart on coal usage since 1950 (below). Eyeballing the graph, peak US coal was in 2007 with a pretty sharp decline since then. Since 2007 that was probably taken up by natural gas, but given the continually decreasing cost of solar, coal is on the way out.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/coal/use-of-coal.php https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/coal/use-of-coal.php
- melling 2y agoClimate change is a global problem. Please look at the problem globally
- addicted 2y agoSolutions will be implemented locally. There’s no global agency that can decree everyone use solar. If even one moderate sized o punter is able to transition successfully that will put tremendous amounts of pressure on every other country. So while climate change is indeed a global problem, the solutions have to be judged locally since they will have to be local and bottom up.
- melling 2y agoBut solar plus batteries is cheaper, right? People will naturally choose them?