▲ 202 ▼ Renewable energy just broke a 100-year-old streak | Coal’s century at the top of the world’s power mix is over. (www.vox.com) submitted 6 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net 24 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago (1 child) Potential energy and tidal are gravitational. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] logi@piefed.world 1 point 6 months ago Tidal is really feeding off the momentum of the planet, but yeah, that's not nuclear. Potential energy... that's more a storage medium. Perhaps we need to add the original energy of the big bang to nuclear. That threw things apart so they could have potential energy, and it gave a lot of matter a lot of momentum which gets topped up occasionally by a nuclear exploding star. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] logi@piefed.world 1 point 6 months ago Tidal is really feeding off the momentum of the planet, but yeah, that's not nuclear. Potential energy... that's more a storage medium. Perhaps we need to add the original energy of the big bang to nuclear. That threw things apart so they could have potential energy, and it gave a lot of matter a lot of momentum which gets topped up occasionally by a nuclear exploding star. permalink fedilink source parent