If all of mankind’s energy was supplied through solar panels would the effect be big enough to decrease the temperature (since light is converted in part to electricity)?

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    28 days ago

    This?

    if you use a watt of sunlight to power your phone instead of a watt of energy you got from burning coal, this watt of energy instead stays below earth and therefore doesn’t heat up the planet.

    The “watt of energy” is a watt from the coal… And they’re saying to leave the coal buried and sequestered.

    I assumed that was understood, so I explained how burning coal heats up the planet…

    You may have not realized what you highlighted had to do with fossil fuels, but that’s just because you didn’t understand.

    Which is fine, you did the right thing and asked questions.

    • credo@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      If you swim in an Olympic sized pool instead of a kiddie pool, this will give you a better experience

      Grammatically, coal was not the subject of that sentence. But that’s fine, I see what OP was going for.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        28 days ago

        But that’s fine, I see what OP was going for.

        Weird choice to downvote the person who helped you understand, but you do you I guess.

        It’s definitely convinced me not to spend anytime helping you in the future though. So maybe don’t be like this to the next person, Lemmy is small and there’s only so many people to help you, eventually you’ll run out.