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Why has the world started to mine coal again? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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With climate change looming, it seems so completely backwards to go back to using it again.

Is it coal miners pushing to keep their jobs? Fear of nuclear power? Is purely politically motivated, or are there genuinely people who believe coal is clean?

Edit, I will admit I was ignorant to the usage of coal nowadays.

Now I'm more depressed than when I posted this

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[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time. People can see past the storage issue when it's not that big of an issue.

Interconnectors and curtailment at peak output are economically optimal. The renewable transition doesn't seem to be slowing.

The renewable boom has only been going for about 10 years. Give it another 10-20 and the world will look drastically different in one generation.

[–] blazera@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh itll look different in 20 years alright, with how slow this is going.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Things are changing fast

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/low-carbon-share-energy?tab=chart&time=2002..2022&country=CHN~GBR~OWID_EUR~USA~AUS

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-energy-consumption?tab=chart&time=2009..latest&country=IND~CHN~AUS~USA~ZAF~OWID_WRL~OWID_EUR

[–] blazera@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that's uh, a 5% increase over 20 years for US. Another 20 years and renewables might make up 20% of our power! With skyrocketed energy demands for AC keeping us alive from the hellscape outside.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The us is is doing shit because their population doesn't care and the management is poor.

But it's about exponentials and us is just far behind where it should be.