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Spiff76 t1_irwk9bb wrote

Yas! So it can be done, glad one country has finally shown the way… despite having masive swaths of desert for solar and prairie for wind and miles of coastline for wave generators it will still take ‘Murica 40 yrs to accomplish this.

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FigoStep t1_irwskl2 wrote

Portugal did this back in 2018 after achieving 99.2% in 2014. Still a great achievement though for any country.

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arch_rival t1_irx4f4k wrote

I once thought exactly like you; I encourage you and others to read How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here And Where We’re Going By Vaclav Smil. In short, the modern world is massively oil dependent and the best green intentions don’t scale anytime quickly. To be clear, he’s not anti green solutions, there are just so many issues of scale that aren’t talked about in the normal discourse. He lays it out plainly and better than I ever could.

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InterestsVaryGreatly t1_irzow9q wrote

Except we have evidence of countries who have already gone green. And even if you argue that solar and wind have downtimes, even ignoring energy storing options, a grid that is mostly renewable with pockets of less green resources to compensate is a massive improvement over what we have.

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arch_rival t1_irzuh90 wrote

My point was largely of scale (and hidden dependence on oil). I really can’t recommend the book enough…

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Dtoodlez t1_itgflj9 wrote

In Murica it will probably be an individual state thing, never wide adoption.

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