• zik@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For example South Australia - no coal since 2016, no nuclear ever, runs mostly on a mix of renewables - solar and wind with batteries and transient gas for in-fill.

    Edit: thanks to whoever downvoted my verified statement of fact (see below)

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        So I looked in the document and it agrees with my point. The most recent stats for South Australia are 8977 GWh of renewable energy and 5717 GWh non-renewable gas energy. You’ll note the gas use is dropping pretty rapidly as they put more renewables on.

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          Ok, so from your point of view 40% fossil fuels is still doing fine? I interpreted your original comment to mean they were doing 100% or close to it in renewables. Then I misunderstood.

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            1 year ago

            It’s just a temporary measure while we transition to 100% renewables. You can see from the numbers that it’s dropping year by year as new renewables are brought on.

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        Weird argument. “It’s a place bigger than a bunch of EU countries put together but it’s not a country so I’m going to use other places that aren’t South Australia to counter your point which was about South Australia”