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To: MtnClimber

Iceland comes close with only 4 out of 20,120 gigawatt hours from renewable sources vs fuel. That’s 0.01988071% of the grid that’s hydrocarbon based. If you dig deeper that was for tiny villages off the main grid using diesel generators. So Iceland can be said to be 99.98% renewable

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1192014/iceland-electricity-generation-by-source/

Sweeten also comes close and they use more energy per capita than Americans 13 megawatts vs 11 because they heat with electric in Sweden been there can confirm lots of electric heating. Saunas too glowing electric could that you dump small buckets of water on for glorious steam on a fridge night.

“Sweden is one of the global leaders in decarbonization, with clean energy sources – including hydropower, nuclear, wind, and solar – representing approximately 90 percent of the country’s electricity mix.”

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1013726/share-of-electricity-production-in-sweden-by-source/

France right now in real time is 2% gas 0% oil 0% coal. It’s nearly all renewables nuclear 67%, Hydro 13%, solar 13%,wind 5% they are also exporting 10,000+ megawatts as in they have a surplus and are selling 10,000 megawatts or ten one gigawatt reactors worth.

https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/power-generation-energy-source

France is the example for the USA since Iceland has a unique location resource of Hydro and geothermal. Sweden is also blessed with lots of rain and huge elevation changes for Hydro. France is fossil fuel poor so they went nuclear in a big way. One standardized design built out state funded en mass and no lawfare allowed by the greens. Just build it and shut up. “This is the way”


20 posted on 08/12/2024 9:45:55 AM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: GenXPolymath

Yes, I agree. But, our greens won’t let us just build it and shut up. We would have to go full communist before they would shut up.


21 posted on 08/12/2024 9:57:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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