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NNadir

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1. "More" doesn't mean quite as much as "when." Humanity relies on fossil fuels when so called "renewable energy," is...

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Wed Oct 8, 2025, 03:33 AM

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...not available, for instance, in months long episodes of Dunkelflaute.

The Norwegian Energy Minister States It Bluntly: "It's an absolute shit situation."

"More than coal" - particularly when energy is not needed - does not mean "less coal" if energy demand is increasing.

The reason the planet is burning is poor understanding of what words actually mean.

We are burning more coal on this planet than ever before.

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