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[โ€“] Fleur_@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (12 children)

If you think about it coal fired power plants are also solar powered ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] untorquer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Fine to think of it, it's also renewable!

[โ€“] simcup@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

AFAIR you can't get new coal/oil because in the meantime there are fungi in the ground that would process the dead plants/alge/whatever was pressed to make the hydrocarbons. but i can't find the source of that info, so grain of salt

[โ€“] untorquer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Stupid science and its "biology" ane "evolutionary timelines" always trying to ruin my fun...

Are you referring to lignen developing before there was a bilogical process to break it down?

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