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Uhm, I dunno if you just time travelled here from the 60s but there's this thing called global warming.
by IshKebab 8mo ago
Uhm, I dunno if you just time travelled here from the 60s but there's this thing called global warming.
- angelgonzales 8mo ago[flagged]
- while_true_ 8mo agoIn 2026 utilities will install 86 GW of new generation, of which only 6 GW will be natural gas. The other 80 GW will all be solar, wind and battery storage. Utilities are doing this because of economics. Environment is secondary. Even oil and gas rich Texas has been aggressively adding solar, wind and battery.
- heyitsmedotjayb 8mo agoCoal is not cheap. At least support oil/gas if you're going to push this cost sensitivity schtick
- IshKebab 8mo agoWind is one of the cheapest sources of electricity available. Even if you are a completely brain-dead climate change denier it makes sense from a financial perspective.
- angelgonzales 8mo agoIn this specific case the CEO stated that gas is the cheaper choice given their ~$1B they can spend.
- kalleboo 8mo agoThe longer quote seems to be "In the situation of the U.S., where you have huge amount of resources, huge amount of land to produce electricity, offshore wind is not the most affordable way to produce electricity" which sounds like it's just as much about the extra cost of off-shore makes less sense when you're not land-constrained like in Europe or Asia.