• Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The first panel severely undersells the massive progress that renewables have made over the last couple of decades. And unfortunately, that just plays into the myth the things like wind and solar are weak and impractical, which is one of the main narratives pushed by opponents of clean energy.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah, Texas is increasingly powered by solar and the American Midwest by wind. There’s the Scottish offshore wind farms too. In places oil is extracted, it’s increasingly the primary source of new electricity generation facilities

  • orlyowl@piefed.ca
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    1 month ago

    I changed it to AI so precisely that no one would ever know it wasn’t the original image. Well ok, I actually sloppily pasted it in with a white box, but good enough I say!

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      Hahaha, no. Not even close.

      Especially if Bitcoin were to make the same amount of daily transactions as the industry it would “replace”. The energy consumption is exponential on that piece of shit.

      The only thing Bitcoin replaces is braincells.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Crypto has at least two major advantages over “AI”.

    • Crypto actually exists.
    • Plenty of cryptos are quite sustainable.

    I don’t give a shit about BTC tho. Just something for libs to cry about.