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Re: 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free | Ars Technica
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2023, 09:08:03 PM »
Way more than predicted.  Apparently geo-thermal is about to take off too by leveraging fracking technology, and it's going to use the same labor pool.

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Re: 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free | Ars Technica
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2024, 02:30:39 AM »
>>6 - Solar

In his proposed 1981 budget, Jimmy Carter had allocated funds to kickstart solar energy with the goal of reaching 20% from solar by the year 2000, based on the dire predictions about climate change that scientists made. He at first did not believe them and asked a second panel of scientists to review the report and they confirmed that, yes, we needed to get off fossil fuels.