• federal reverse@feddit.orgM
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    2 months ago

    Weird how fossil fuel companies also managed to instrumentalize solar PV too. Iirc, both Shell and BP created solar departments which they then allowed to generate a low single-digit percentage of revenue. Thus, a) generating positive media coverage and b) not endangering their fossil core business.

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      1 month ago

      Not at all. Renewables used to be so expensive, that they were basically not an option. That is no longer the case.

      Today nuclear is great as a new power plant takes a decade in planning, approving and building before it produces any power. So a decade more fossil fuels.