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Related: About this forumMove is on to make concrete plans for 100% renewables
100 Percent Renewable Vision Building
By Paul Gipe, Contributor
April 4, 2013
Increasingly countries and regions are leapfrogging timid renewable targets and moving toward full 100 percent integration of renewables into electricity supply. Some thought leaders, politicians, and advocates are moving even further, suggesting 150 percent, even 300 percent renewable electricity generation to meet not only electricity supply but also heat and transport.
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Meanwhile, Danes continued to erect ever more wind turbines throughout the 1990s. Soon Denmark was closing on 20 percent of supply from wind energy alone and it became apparent again that our targets were too modest.
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The list of what was once unimaginable continues to grow. Portugals 10 million people produced more than half their electricity in 2010 from their own indigenous renewable resources. Spains 40 million people meet one-third of their electrical consumption from renewables.
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On the panel were two long-time renewable pioneers, Preben Maegaard from Denmark, and Johannes Lackmann from Germany. Independent of each other, both had come to the same conclusion. To address climate change and energy security, we must move well beyond 100 percent renewable energy in electricity supply and build an integrated network capable of using more than 150% renewable energy, up to as much as 300 percent renewable energy to offset fossil fuels in transportation, and heating.
Read entire piece at:
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/04/100-percent-renewable-vision-building?cmpid=WNL-Friday-April5-2013
By Paul Gipe, Contributor
April 4, 2013
Increasingly countries and regions are leapfrogging timid renewable targets and moving toward full 100 percent integration of renewables into electricity supply. Some thought leaders, politicians, and advocates are moving even further, suggesting 150 percent, even 300 percent renewable electricity generation to meet not only electricity supply but also heat and transport.
<snip>
Meanwhile, Danes continued to erect ever more wind turbines throughout the 1990s. Soon Denmark was closing on 20 percent of supply from wind energy alone and it became apparent again that our targets were too modest.
<snip>
The list of what was once unimaginable continues to grow. Portugals 10 million people produced more than half their electricity in 2010 from their own indigenous renewable resources. Spains 40 million people meet one-third of their electrical consumption from renewables.
<snip>
On the panel were two long-time renewable pioneers, Preben Maegaard from Denmark, and Johannes Lackmann from Germany. Independent of each other, both had come to the same conclusion. To address climate change and energy security, we must move well beyond 100 percent renewable energy in electricity supply and build an integrated network capable of using more than 150% renewable energy, up to as much as 300 percent renewable energy to offset fossil fuels in transportation, and heating.
Read entire piece at:
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/04/100-percent-renewable-vision-building?cmpid=WNL-Friday-April5-2013
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Move is on to make concrete plans for 100% renewables (Original Post)
kristopher
Apr 2013
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cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)1. Absolutely - Oil And Gas Barons Are Holding America Back
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madokie
(51,076 posts)2. And have been for years
All the while pocketing a ton of our money, money that could be doing good rather than languishing in an off shore bank account doing nothing for humanity and very little for the hoarders
The oil barons should have to answer for the robbery they've been doing to us for way too long now.
kristopher
(29,798 posts)3. Id be satisfied with just getting rid of their base of power.
Justice is nice but survival comes first.
madokie
(51,076 posts)4. I agree Kristopher
Gotta stop the bleeding first then we can worry with the rest