• fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    then it doesn’t matter that they use lots of it because it’s renewable anyway

    It does, it always does. There’s for one grey energy, and more importantly this energy can’t be used somewhere else where otherwise fossil fuels were used. We should always be efficient with our energy use…

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      this energy can’t be used somewhere else where otherwise fossil fuels were used

      You think all nuclear power plants and renewables are running at max capacity all the time?

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        56 minutes ago

        Then we need to use it, there’s a high demand for hydrogen (not for electricity) for instance, so excess energy should just either be stored or converted to H.