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Cake day: March 18th, 2024

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  • First off there’s no such thing as 100% clean or renewable power. Solar panels are metals (mined with petroleum powered equipment and probably refined in China using coal) plus petroleum products (plastics etc). They’re shipped around on trucks and boats, and if they’re burnt to remove the petrolium products before extracting the metals when they’re ‘recyced’ then it’s literally burning fossil fuels.

    Not only that but they’re buying RECs. The power they’re consuming could very well be 100% generated by coal, but they gave a few bucks to somebody who had solar or wind.













  • Maybe an unpopular opinion here on lemmy, but I think this is a good thing.

    Chevron is a good idea in theory, give experts in regulating a specific thing more leeway to manage that. Problem is if you give a bureaucratic agency an inch they become maniacal dictators. They start calling bees a kind of fish and a puddle in your backyard a lake, they randomly change up their own decisions making normal people criminals overnight or vice versa, and sometimes they even just try to make their own rules.

    If you want a law then make a law, don’t have an unelected bureaucrat issue an edict. If the legislative branch is a mess the solution is to fix the mess, not hand off their powers to the executive branch. Again, if used by level headed people it would have been great, but eventually after so many decisions that would sound too comical for a parody we can’t have nice things anymore.