Did anyone tell the article writers that the EU used the most coal it ever has in 2022?

Meanwhile a small town in Germany gets demolished for coal. Hyperdrive....yeah. Send help.

This is so insane, wonder if they’re planning to spread the fungus all around to like large landfills or if it only works in controlled enviorments where they harvest the ingredients. Would be so cool if this could make a difference quickly.

Come on now the dude read a headline that said “Germany bad” so he’s pretty read up on the whole situation

Well, they aren't teasing us. Renewables have, despite everything going on the world, being growing exponentially for the last 12 years. And it's only getting faster thanks to Putin trying to fuck with Ukraine.
It doesn't look like much because doubling of 0.0001% is nothing to be excited about. But, we are getting to the stage where renewables are now the preferred new power source because they're cheaper and have a higher rate of return investment.
Legacy systems (fossil fuel plants and some nuclear) are being deactivated rather quickly. Scotland, for example, closed and demolished it's last coal-fired power station a few years ago and we have such a surplus of energy we're actively helping keep the lights on in England.
I think there's room for some (cautious) optimism about our energy future. Same with food production in terms of artificial fermentation, 'vat grown' meat and vertical or indoor farming (hydroponics, aquaponics, agrivoltaics as well).

These things aren't going to be adopted because they're going to save the world (which is the morally right reason to do so) but because they're cheaper, more efficient and require less risk on the part of the people investing in them. Our main issues around renewables are reliable, long-term storage and sourcing the materials required to make them. Even then there's all kinds of cool progress in material science that's helping those things move along as well.

And sorry for this mini-TED talk of a reply :P

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This is great news!

I've always complained that owning an electric car is impossible for me because my underground parking doesn't have plugs to charge a car. And I'm not willing to have the limitation of being able to charge my car only at work.

I just found out today that the building management will be installing charging plugs at every parking lot! Great news! Only question now is when will it get done....

Just no.

Nice try, cordyceps

Let me guess, you have no clue about the situation in Germany?

The goal for wind energy installation this year is almost double the target from last year (and it was met).

For solar, wait times are beyond one year.

Germany was at 44.6% renewable electric energy last year about double of, say, usa.

(and if you insist : coal is on a downward trend in Germany since 2012)

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Don't tease us with a hyperdrive

Not in Germany.

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Is there anything these mushrooms can't do?!?!?

Science be cray!

This reminds me of NileRed, and all of his badassery.

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Soon to be not only noises-killing.

No they could not have, 10 years ago the price per watt was something like four times as high.

>This cynicism is fabricated

That's spot on.

I dunno how your legislature works but the only reason my state of Missouri got medical, and then a couple months ago recreational, is because they were both ballot initiatives.

https://norml.org/kentucky-marijuana-legalization-legislation-is-pending/

The problem in your state appears to be your Senate who didn't even allow the last marijuana bill that passed the house to have a committee in the senate.

So if you wanna blame someone, blame Republican Robert Stivers.

Nano coating, thought to protect from micro plastics, gone viral, more at 10.

There are going to be a couple of fiber generations that can be achieved without the need to change fiber cabling in the ground. A fair bit of the capability is about commercializing 5G and 10G fiber modems.