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@Axirrus
History lover. Science enthusiast. Solar energy fan. Futuristic. Human being.









75% of the world lives in fossil fuel importing countries. Every $10 oil price rise adds $160bn/year to the global import bill. The single biggest fix: EVs replacing imported oil in transport could save importers $600bn/year. Read the report: 🔗ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

Coal power has effectively died in the United Kingdom— (This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie, with data work by @parriagadap.) The United Kingdom was the birthplace of coal. It has now, effectively, died there. As shown in the chart, in the late 1980s, around two-thirds of the UK’s electricity came from coal. By the time I was born in the 1990s, this had dropped to just over half. The use of coal has plummeted in my lifetime. It now makes up around 0.1% of the UK’s electricity. Coal was first replaced by gas, but is now being pushed out by wind, solar, and biomass.





مصر محتاجة كمان محطتين زي الضبعة.. دا مش رقم عشوائي، لو حابين نخلي حمل الشبكة الأساسي (Baseload) نووي فمحتاجين محطات تغطي 40% من حمل الذروة لأن النسبة دي غالباً بتبقى الحمل الأساسي (أقل طلب على الكهرباء).. حمل الذروة في مصر وصل 40 جيجاوات وبالتالي الحمل الأساسي حوالي 16 جيجاوات






Solar power is clearly the future because the United States cannot blockade or embargo the sun