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Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time (abcnews.com)
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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago

Coal is mostly used to produce electricity and steel. So more electricity from solar then coal is actually good news.

However oil and gas are much harder to replace, but again we actually have a lot of the technology, it is "just" about rolling it out on scale, which is hard.