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Superjuden t1_jaduo6b wrote

All of the CGI stuff is saved as well, they can render it at 4K@240hz tomorrow if they felt like it. But scanning about a million feet of 35mm film and then editing in the CGI and cutting everything correctly is a process that'll take years. If they knew how poor the TNG sales would be they would have never done it and DS9 nowhere near as popular.

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QggOne t1_jadubaf wrote

There was also the Cash-For-Ash scandal in Northern Ireland. The NI executive gave a lot of subsidies for wood pellet burning.

The subsidies at one point significantly exceeded the price of buying wood pellets. This led to people burning wood pellets in empty farmhouses to make large amounts of money.

Coincidentally, a lot of those who made money out of this, were NI political party donors.

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0pimo t1_jadu8wd wrote

>Solar was the fastest-growing renewable energy source – output by solar increased by 24.14% and its share of total US electrical generation for the year was 4.74%.
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>Electrical generation by wind also expanded significantly – growing by 14.97% and providing over a tenth of total US electrical generation in 2022.

Maybe. But Solar and Wind are growing quite quickly.

I know in my area they're putting up solar and wind farms like crazy. My warehouse is powered 100% by renewable energy off the grid now.

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SILENTSAM69 t1_jadsz36 wrote

If by clean they only mean a climate change contributed they are not actually wrong.

Most people don't realise that while plants pull CO2 out of their air they do not remove it from the carbon cycle. Only if the plants were treated as nuclear waste, or even better buried in the ocean would that CO2 actually be removed from the carbon cycle.

The problem is that the CO2 released from fossil fuels is being added to the carbon cycle. It had been buried long ago.

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