That massive spike of 50c/kWh at the left looks tiny compared to today even though that’s already insanely expensive

  • fonetek@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Your thinking of charcoal, which are chunks of wood converted into almost pure carbon by heating them above their combustion temperature in a low oxygen environment. He was talking about coal that was mined out of the ground. Plants from an ancient swamps that didn’t decompose, but were converted into almost pure carbon from millions of years of heat and pressure from being buried.

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      10 months ago

      No.

      I don’t think any type of coal heating has existed for homes in quite a long time in my country.

      I honestly thought it was phased out decades ago in pretty much the entire western world.