To: AnotherUnixGeek
who are too ignorant to understand how electricity is generated. That would be me. Is all electricity generated by fossil fuels? Some of it?
To: Lizavetta
Generally coal and natural gas.
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09/03/2023 8:39:25 AM PDT by
marron
To: Lizavetta
That would be me. Is all electricity generated by fossil fuels? Some of it?
All reliable, "on-demand" electricity that we use is based on fossil fuels (mostly), hydro-electric power or nuclear fission.
To: Lizavetta
What is generating PJM's electricity right now (scroll down a little when the page comes up to "Generation Fuel Mix"):
https://www.pjm.com/
To: Lizavetta
Up here in the wet Northwest, we have these things on rivers called dams, and the water piled up behind the dams is used to turn turbines to generate electricity. Some of the cheapest per KW hour energy available.
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