Sweden's remarkably clean power grid. In November, this was its electricity generation mix:
Hydro 38%
Wind 31%
Nuclear 28%
Bioenergy 4%
Zero coal or gas.
- Ember data
Hydro 38%
Wind 31%
Nuclear 28%
Bioenergy 4%
Zero coal or gas.
- Ember data
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These countries are leading the way to 100% renewable electricity
https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/10/14/these-countries-are-leading-the-way-to-100-renewable-electricity/
will flood then explode
Global warming is exponential
https://energy-information.canada.ca/en/energy-facts/clean-power-low-carbon-fuels
Encourage smart consumerism and fiscal responsibility in government, maybe then the enviro projects will become possible.
Exports are synonymous with selling.
Imports are synonymous with buying.
If you buy more than you sell, you're accruing debt.
AB/YK has plenty of Radium/Uranium reserves, and plenty of investing into Small Modular Reactors should they ever want to quit mucking about in the tarsands
That's why I left Alberta to recycle radios and volunteer for the Elk River/Kootenay Watershed in BC
They can keep stomping in tarsands and being misogynistic without me 😘
Also, try telling the Elk Valley that, they call me a commie just for cleaning up the river, voting Green, and recycling radios 🤭😉 bunch of wannabe Trump voters out here
Elk Valley is coal country so I'm not surprised. I used to spend a lot time camping, hiking, and snowboarding between Sparwood and Cranbrook back when I lived in Calgary.
https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/provincial-territorial-energy-profiles/provincial-territorial-energy-profiles-british-columbia.html
All you needed was good ol' socialists who actually represented the working class getting behind nuclear.
So yeah, not likely in the NL...
The vast majority of socialists are secretly selfish and corrupt.
Kudos to those European nations who have found success through socialist policies.
https://theprogressplaybook.com/2023/10/19/energy-independent-uruguay-runs-on-100-renewables-for-four-straight-months/
74% hydro
13% geothermal
12.5% wind
0.5% solar
0.1% biomass
They have had 100% carbon-free periods, but they keep some diesel around for backup.
Nuclear 38%
Wind 38%
Hydro 10%
Other 14%
Source: https://www.fingrid.fi/en/electricity-market/power-system/
That high cost grey at the end is nuclear.
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2024/photovoltaic-plants-with-battery-cheaper-than-conventional-power-plants.html
Yes Wind.
Yes Hydro (if you have a spot for it).
Yes nuclear.
Yes batteries.
Solar+Batteries is starting to compete with Gas peaker plants in price.
Hydropower
Solar
Wind
Composting
Reduce Reuse Recycle
Drilling gas oil
Coal
Atomic
I just see all these brilliant green energy tech ideas and it breaks my heart knowing most of them will never be used. Energy should be free. Not another cash cow.
Every year companies and politicians do nothing are more years of worse pain we inflict on our children.
They look like these…
Anyway, here is a link.
https://insights.grcglobalgroup.com/portugal-has-just-run-for-6-days-on-renewable-energy-what-can-the-world-learn-from-it/
They wanna build nuclear, but they've denied massive wind farms, and they wanna reduce emissions, but they do the opposite of what experts recommend - or insufficient to counter the increased emissions they've caused themselves
#CleanEnergy
Move there and shut up.
Solar uses batteries for when sun doesn't shine.
Fuk Us Hi Ma
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-nuclear-plant-leak-6b72b6f9cd2a1141aadd985b68654e04
The US population is 340 million in a land space that's only eight times bigger.
Scaling issues matter greatly.
won't SOMEONE think of the oil lobbies?!
Are you allowed to count it?
There you go, fixed it for you.
Actually we don't use all of that ourselves, we export a lot in our EU internal electricity market. Sweden is EUs top net exporter of electricity.
Reactors built with lifespan of 40-60yrs.
U238 used for fuel has a half life of 4.5bn yrs. U235 700mn yrs.
US discards about 2000 tons of rods per year which might get buried for 100k yrs.
Go figure...
Look closer, a big glowing boiler
Fortunately the US has much more realisable solar and wind potential
Just sayin'.
Also when you have enough Hydro you can use it to store excess wind and solar energy (somewhat) easily
Regardless, this *is* amazing
Calling these “clean” energy, they aren’t “clean” energy the only difference is when the CO2 is released, during production or by the end user. Either way burning fossil fuels is necessary for the energy output to be made available. But out of sight out of mind I guess.
Computer, no electric car, no batteries, streets, mass farming, etc.
The CO2 from Ion battery manufacturing) but electric can’t produce the amount of energy necessary to mine steel,
Heat it to mild it or lithium because not all energy is equal.
not German, but live in Germany and i was PISSED when they dismantled the power plants for literally zero reason
or i guess the reason was that they wanted to suck some gas from ruzzia idfk 🤡
Klamath River: Four dams.
Elwha River:Elwha and Glines Canyon Dams
Patapsco River in Maryland: Several dams
Across 20 States: In 2022 alone, 65 dams were removed across the U.S., reconnecting over 430 miles of rivers.
Spain: 200 dams destroyed since 2022.
Also Sweden,France, UK.
Apparently nothing.
Opinions seem very varied on the subject though.
Hydro might be more damaging in the long run than nuclear. It ruins ecosystems and destroys species locally. But those people never live in the areas affected.
There are 3 NPPs with a total of 6 reactors now.
How many new ones would be built and when would they be delivered? 2040? 2050?
The last reactor built in Sweden was in 1985..
You cannot have a 100% nuclear powergrid
I only wished to restore some of Swedens nature is all. But guess that'll never happened.
Why do they make it seem impossible here in America?
We probably are the most polluted country - it seems they care more about the corps who make money using gas/coal than they do the environment.
For reference the UK is approx 0.23 (also from Ember) although to be fair the UK has reduced by two thirds since 1990.
You also need to rebuild walkable cities with mass public transport.
Saying nuclear isn't clean power is like saying global warming isn't real or vaccines don't work. Just stop it.
Nuclear waste can (and will) also be recycled.
Contrary to a lot of industrial chemical waste flows that *actually* are forever
But we must get over fear of underground storage and transport to get it there.
Unlike certain scaredy cats ( 🫵 I see you, Germany).
Open borders are the foundations of a future ecological disaster.
The end.
„billions of poor people heading to places like the Amazon and start gold mining, felling trees, hunting wildlife and killing indigenous tribes“ when he is referring to….
…..SWEDEN!!!
Get a life, dude
edumacate pls
Reality: Fewer than domestic cats by a massive margin.
Hydro 58%
Fossil 19%
Nuclear 14%
Wind 6%
Bio 2%
Solar 1%
https://www.energimyndigheten.se/energisystem-och-analys/nulaget-i-energisystemet/energilaget/
renewable energy sources batter us in the winter and the summer, the tides always flow the wind usually blows even the sun sometimes shines.
We can and should already be exclusively using renewables.
Time as ever will tell.
Rather than pick holes, useful as that is lets look at the bigger picture
This is a useful site https://grid.iamkate.com/
I'm aware of many projects that never got approved, or haven't started yet... but have any been built?
We are so far behind where we should be its dereliction from our Governments
Looks like there's a handful now with financing.
Hopefully they'll prove successful 🤞
But otherwise agreed the rot is well set in and we have wasted far too much time.
Scotland the land of the brave choices
Iceland does have electric bills.
It is not 100% geothermal.
Getting heat out of the ground can be expensive!
The cost of fuel is only part of the cost of electricity.
Geothermal energy is also used directly for heating homes and public swimming pools in many areas.