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Portugal kept its lights on with renewable energy alone for four consecutive days last week in a clean energy milestone revealed by data analysis of national energy network figures.
Electricity consumption in the country was fully covered by solar, wind and hydro power in an extraordinary 107-hour run that lasted from 6.45am on Saturday 7 May until 5.45pm the following Wednesday, the analysis says.
News of the zero emissions landmark comes just days after Germany announced that clean energy had powered almost all its electricity needs on Sunday 15 May, with power prices turning negative at several times in the day – effectively paying consumers to use it.
Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone | Environment | The Guardian
This is excellent, and it's only going to get better.
Hey, it's a nice little start.Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone | Environment | The Guardian
This is excellent, and it's only going to get better.
Tyranny! Socialism is destroying Europe! All Real Americans MUST keep renewable energy out of the U.S. before such catastrophes destroy the American way of life!!!!!
You know better than that Glen.I haven't met anyone not in favor of renewable energy. People are upset with our gov't going bout it the wrong way.
Hey, that is an accomplishment, there is no doubt.
But if you do the math, that is about 1% of the year, there are still another 361 days to reliably source our requirements for energy. Thank god for fossil and nuclear energy. Most of us don't mind at all that advances are being made, but they should not be made at tax payer expense and should be competitive in the marketplace.
Until then, all the detractors of current and reliable energy are just flapping in the wind...oh but that we could somehow harness the wasted energy being released from those sources.
Yea when Germany reached their new record of 78 % of the Nation being powered by renewable energy they Left and the naive celebrated and used it as proof that renewables are the way to go.
What wasn't widely reported is that it was on a weekedn day, where most of their manufacturing was shut down, the wind in the North was perfect for their windtubines and it was a sunny day in the South so their solar plants were operating at peak efficiency
And it was only for a short amount of time. What also wasn't reported is that Germans pay 3 times what the average American pays for electricity and their are large numbers of German citizens who have been effectively priced out of electricity
Eh, until the real costs of fossil fuels are actually paid for by those using them, price comparisons will never be valid.
Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone
What " real cost " would you be referring too ? Lemme guess. AGW will lead to apocalyptic environmental and economic destruction in the future ?
Our only hope of avoiding this is to enact economy killing regulations and force a substandard veey expensive technology onto the American people
While coughing,...."fascist".What " real cost " would you be referring too ? Lemme guess. AGW will lead to apocalyptic environmental and economic destruction in the future ?
Our only hope of avoiding this is to enact economy killing regulations and force a substandard veey expensive technology onto the American people
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