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this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2024
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It being 2024 does this depress anyone as much as I.
This shouldn't be depressing; it means the cost advantage that renewables have is causing them to displace fossil fuel use, at least at a national level in the US. There's the potential for that to start happening globally over the next year.
yeah I just meant that coal is the worst and they had to combine two of the best to get it more and that was for only two months and we are a quarter way through the century. I mean it depresses me this did not happen a decade ago.