“with wind the single-biggest contributor… Power production costs have declined “by almost half” … And the clean energy sector has created 50,000 new jobs… Ask me what was the impact on the electricity sector in Uruguay after this tragic war in Europe — zero.”

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    Also how is biomass a battery? You can’t put energy back into a forest

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      6 months ago

      By that logic you could also not call the flat thing inside a phone a battery because it can’t feed back into the grid.

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        6 months ago

        Other way round, you can take biomass and turn it into electricity easily. But you cant easily turn electricity into biomass. (it is easy on a phone to go both ways tho, google “USB c OTG adapter”)

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        6 months ago

        Yea, that’s the issue. For something to be sustainable, you need to replenish the fuel source. Biomass can be, but you need a lot of it, but we also need it for food

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      6 months ago

      It’s a very slow charging battery is all.

      Anything that stores energy can be a battery.

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        6 months ago

        technically yes, well an accu really. But that might be different in English. The question is whether that sunlight charging of that carbon store can keep up with our consumption

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      You burn it, and it generates electricity in a thermal plant. Or you can use it directly to heat a boiler to heat buildings.