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fguerraztoday at 2:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yes, if you count the Drax power plant as renewable, sure.

If you add to that deindustrialization and buying everything from abroad and not caring where that energy comes from, it’s super easy.


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margalabargalatoday at 3:00 PM

It's a biomass burning power plant. Biomass is absolutely renewable by any definition of "renewable". More can be grown on useful short term timescales.

Also, burning biomass does not affect the long term CO2 makeup of the atmosphere. The CO2 emitted was sequestered a decade ago, not 400 million years ago. Biomass carbon release is the normal carbon cycle of the earth.

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rwmjtoday at 3:03 PM

Drax isn't included. There's even a specific note about this next to "Biomass" on the page.