“Together, the two renewable sources generated a record 531 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity during the month, 54 TWh more than gas plants generated globally, at 477 TWh.”
I think “renewable” has become a buzz word that people don’t think critically about, so a lot of folks don’t understand how important it is for an energy source to be renewable.
Once you’ve pumped an oil well dry, it stays dry. It doesn’t refill with oil, at least not on human timescales. But the sunlight that solar panels used to generate electricity today will be replaced with new sunlight tomorrow. And that daily renewal of sunlight will continue for many, many millions of years.
It seems so obvious to me.
Once you’ve pumped an oil well dry, it stays dry. It doesn’t refill with oil, at least not on human timescales.
To underscore your point even more, you’re statement starts from a found well. Resource exploration is expensive in and of itself. Extraction companies have to go and find places in the world where there are resources and set up the expensive logistics for extraction and transportation of that fuel to markets. All of that has to happen before a well can be eventually run dry.
Alternatively, Finding good spots for new wind or solar deployments is fairly trivial.
also finding new resources and extracting oil/gas from subpart material/minerals is another expense too.
Yeah, i dont think that counted my solar panels because i pushed it all in the batteries. I can only imagine what the report would say if that counted, huh.
Prolly not … but congrats on owning a chunk of the everlasting!
