• Fleur_@aussie.zone
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      15 hours ago

      If you think about it coal fired power plants are also solar powered 🤔

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        14 hours ago

        True, just that an intermediate step(of many steps) is to continually destroy the atmosphere.

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          12 hours ago

          It’s not like we need it to breath anyways. We’ll just pay corporations for oxygen masks and “Atmo-tanks” to breath. We have commodify everything because Capitalism requires it.

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        10 hours ago

        Only that sun fell on plants millions of years ago. We really don’t want that million year old carbon dioxide in the atmosphere alongside the recent stuff

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          8 hours ago

          Very true, the conclusion I’m drawing is that solar power is actively harming the environment and causing climate change. No new solar!

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          8 hours ago

          AFAIR you can’t get new coal/oil because in the meantime there are fungi in the ground that would process the dead plants/alge/whatever was pressed to make the hydrocarbons. but i can’t find the source of that info, so grain of salt

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            Most coal comes from the carbonipherous period, a period in which plants evolved wood but microbes funghi (shutout to Lyrl’s below comment) still hadn’t evolved wood-eating.

            You can get new coal in marshes because I think the process to eat wood requires oxygen, and flooded areas don’t allow for wood to decompose totally. That’s why they can pull out wooden ships from 500 years ago from the bottom of the ocean in relatively good condition!

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              7 hours ago

              That it took 400 million years for one fungus to evolve wood eating is wild to me. And no other microbe has ever evolved that ability: my understanding is all wood decay fungal species today evolved from one shared ancester.

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                  5 hours ago

                  I wasn’t intending my comment as a correction - microbe is a more general term than bacteria, and most fungi are indeed microbes - but just saw an opportunity to add on what I think is a cool fact. Thanks for bringing up the carboniferous period!

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            8 hours ago

            Stupid science and its “biology” ane “evolutionary timelines” always trying to ruin my fun…

            Are you referring to lignen developing before there was a bilogical process to break it down?

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        16 hours ago

        do you not know how those work?

        the sun shines on the side angled upwards and heats it up. everybody knows hot air rises, so this raises the blade, creating the spinning motion.

        it’s basic, really. third grade stuff.

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          12 hours ago

          I really love how it’s almost that simple.

          the sun shines on the side angled upwards planet and heats it up. everybody knows hot air rises, so this raises creating winds that drive the blade, creating the spinning motion.

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            6 hours ago

            Omg every body knows wind is created when god sighs at the collective sin of the world.

            Some people so dumb.