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Environment & Energy

hunter

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1. Solar gigawatts are not the same as fossil fuel gigawatts...

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:20 AM

11 hrs ago

... which are available 24 hours a day every day of the year.

Certainly the fossil fuel industry would prefer a 100% fossil fuel powered economy but in the long run a fossil fuel / solar / wind powered economy isn't an existential threat to them.

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Solar gigawatts are not the same as fossil fuel gigawatts... hunter 11 hrs ago #1