How Does Your State Make Electricity? America isn’t making electricity the way it did two decades ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/02/climate/electricity-generation-us-states.html?unlocked_article_code=1._00.SL4N.Jt_eNrDJVwn1
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TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 2y
Good ol sunshine state basically making it illegal to invest in solar. I fucking hope desantis gets exiled.
Cagi@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 2y
What terrible graphs.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 2y
I read your comment before clicking on the article, and I thought "how bad could they be?"
These have me in tears.... Lol
silence7@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 2y
They are ugly, but they also tell an important story, which is the decline of coal, and (in some areas) rise of wind and solar.
sinkingship@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 2y
Love the "gas" label in your second picture. There was no need at all to tilt letters, but I guess it would not keep the theme of "thrown together" if it was straight text.
Also what is with all that background white in between the graphs? Is it electricity demand that didn't get meet by any means? Asking jokingly.
subtext@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
You’d think that 100% height graphs (or whatever they’re called) didn’t exist
Kaboom@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 2y
I honestly can't believe those are real graphs. Looks like Ms paint and that Amiga 500 program had a baby that was dropped on his head
Stache_@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 2y
Such a shame seeing how we’ve all but abandoned nuclear energy as an option
silence7@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 2y
That's mostly about it's incredibly high cost
smock9@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Kyle Hill just posted a video on this: https://youtu.be/RPjBj1TEmRQ?si=4QrIEs9VAP5mqUJP
waddle_dee@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
silence7@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 2y
It's not as cheap as wind or solar at current upfront costs.
waddle_dee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
silence7@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y
I'm talking about the exact same thing. Wind and solar are cheaper by that metric.
Nuclear is still cost-competitive with long-duration storage, so if that doesn't fall in price (which is what has been happening with storage recently) it might make sense to use for 10% or so of overall generation.
waddle_dee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
silence7@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y
I did. That was true 20 years ago. It's not now
Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Not here in Illinois thankfully. We've got enough electric from nuclear that we export to other states.
brianary@startrek.website · 8 pts · 2y
I love living in Washington. But I i fear the backlash as Inslee finishes his last term. He's been a great, green governor, but absolutely vilified for it by the right.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y
Based vermont (but rip nuclear)