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  • disablist@lemdro.id
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    10 months ago

    Coal is also energy storage, well, all fossil fuels. That’s their primary advantage, on-demand easily accessible stores of energy.

    If only they didn’t simultaneously pollute and cook the earth when used…

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      10 months ago

      They are stored solar energy! Releasing the energy also unfortunately releases the carbon into the atmosphere.