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If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. (europe.pub)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 10 points 8 months ago (12 children)

If you think about it coal fired power plants are also solar powered 🤔

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    True, just that an intermediate step(of many steps) is to continually destroy the atmosphere.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 8 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

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  • [+] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    That it took 400 million years for one fungus to evolve wood eating is wild to me. And no other microbe has ever evolved that ability: my understanding is all wood decay fungal species today evolved from one shared ancester.

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