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US electricity production using wind power has almost doubled in five years from 2019 to 2024 .
Coal-produced electricity has dropped from about 80 and 60 GWh in 2019 to roughly 38.3 and 37.2 GWh.
That's a whopping 28% more wind power than coal power for those two months in 2024 compared to 2019 .
The decline in coal has been taken up largely by natural-gas-fired plants.
60% of bitcoin transactions alone rely on non-renewable energy; primarily coal.
The rise of clean energies like wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, ocean tidal and wave energy, and even ocean thermal energy conversion, are taking away the demand to burn fossil fuels that can take hundreds of millions of years to replenish themselves.
In Norway , 98% of all electricity production comes from renewable sources.
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