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Has to be those frozen wind turbines and solar panels... (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Source - The colors of the grids represent CO2 emissions

The title is a reference to the 2021 Texas power crisis

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

it's insane that so many flyover states are competing (and winning) against fucking California

edit: by winning, i meant having more carbon emissions, not doing better. dumb wording.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense when you realize 12% of Americans live in CA, vs somewhere like WY where 0.17% of Americans live.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

what i meant was there producing more carbon emissions. you would expect more populous areas to produce more carbon emissions

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People underestimate just how massive California is. There are a lot of people across a large span of land that require electricity. I imagine the map would look very different if it was scaled by population.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

my wording has failed me immensely. i would at least expect people to look at the map and realize what I'm actually trying to say but here we are. that is my point. California has like the population of all these states combined yet all of them are producing more carbon emissions. when i said "winning" i meant in amount of carbon emissions, meaning doing worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are we looking at the same map? Looks like California is far less emissions heavy than the flyover states. High proportions of solar panel energy, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are winning in producing emissions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

that's what I meant. bad wording.