From my time in the power industry, Coal was being replaced with a lot of natural gas. Cleaner, but still a fossil fuel.
If you were to re-word that as "The majority of electricity in the USA is produced from fossil sources," that would be accurate. An alarming number of coal plants have gone offline in the last 10 years.
From my time in the power industry, Coal was being replaced with a lot of natural gas. Cleaner, but still a fossil fuel.
If you were to re-word that as "The majority of electricity in the USA is produced from fossil sources," that would be accurate. An alarming number of coal plants have gone offline in the last 10 years.
I hate the term "fossil fuel" so I skipped using it. Oil is abiotic. I doubt natural gas comes from dinosaur bones either. Still, your point is taken.
Mine was that the article's author was likely under-counting the percentage of EVs that are charged with non-green tech.
I use the term because in the power industry, "Fossil plant" is the term for a generation facility that uses a natural, burnable resource to generate power.
It's just a catch-all, and really only means "Not nuclear or wind/solar/hydro."
It's just a catch-all, and really only means "Not nuclear or wind/solar/hydro."
I now, but it's their term and I hate using it.
(post is archived)