Costa Rica Has Gotten All Of Its Electricity From Renewables For 75 Days Straight

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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/21/3636823/costa-rica-renewables/

The Latin American country hasn’t had to use fossil fuels at all so far in 2015, due to heavy rains that have kept hydroelectric power plants going strong. Wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal energy have also helped power the country this year.

“The year 2015 has been one of electricity totally friendly to the environment for Costa Rica,” ICE announced in a press release in Spanish this week.

This reliance on renewables has prompted the country to lower electricity rates by 12 percent. ICE predicts that rates will continue to drop for Costa Rican customers in the second quarter of the year.

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1. I hope Jurassic Park has backup!

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2. That's not on the mainland

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3. I read about that. Very exciting. The old oil era is on its way out, we are so far behind on this

here it is truly sad, because we could have led the way to an oil free world.

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4. When Reagan beat Carter

Our country went into a decline it might not recover from.
Carter would have had us on the road to renewable energy.

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5. Perhaps the US should follow Costa Rica's example.

Part of the reason why Costa Rica can devote so much funding to environmental issues is that the country abolished its military in 1948, allowing it to divert funds that would have gone towards defense needs to the environment, healthcare, and education.

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6. All the things we could do

Without the military waste.

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9. Yup. (nt)

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7. the DU server farm uses more electricity than C.R. .....nt

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8. That is not true

On any level.