• Mel@discuss.tchncs.de
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    22 hours ago

    Fun Fact: Since 2006-2007 Uruguay’s power infrastructure has mostly relied on green energy, making up over 90% of their power infrastructure, also making them fully self sustaining power wise

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      17 hours ago

      In Canada (2023), renewables make up 66% and nuclear 13% (about 80% together). That’s also pretty good.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      19 hours ago

      yeah some countries have that, like sweden and austria. the reason is because they’re very mountaineous areas, so there’s a lot of water power to harvest. in germany, which is really flat, that would have been impossible with water alone.

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      18 hours ago

      fully self sustaining power wise

      Damn, imagine that.

      Talk about national security.

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        I dont know about this topic spessifically, but the excuses of “but they are rich”/“they have a small population”/“they’re a small country” when used against good stuff like this not existing somewhere else almost always seems to be that… Dumb excuses.

        Their education system is awesome? Oh well they’re only a handful of people.

        They have low car usage and walkable/bikeable cities? Oh well their land is just 40,000 km².

        They have good social services? Well they’re a really rich country.