| Didn't realise, Uruguay generates around 98% of its energy needs from renewables on 17:39 - Dec 17 with 660 views | Trequartista |
*electricity not energy |  |
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| Didn't realise, Uruguay generates around 98% of its energy needs from renewables on 18:04 - Dec 17 with 624 views | Bent_double |
| Didn't realise, Uruguay generates around 98% of its energy needs from renewables on 17:39 - Dec 17 by Trequartista |
*electricity not energy |
Oops, good point, edited. Cheers. |  |
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| Uruguay generates around 98% of its electricity needs from renewables on 18:36 - Dec 17 with 568 views | NthQldITFC |
Yanks will no doubt be bombing them soon for being too woke. |  |
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| Uruguay generates around 98% of its electricity needs from renewables on 18:49 - Dec 17 with 559 views | Guthrum |
Yes it is impressive, but has to be put in context if comparing with the UK.
Uruguay's population is just 3.5m, nearly a third of whom live in the capital. It doesn't have a heritage of energy-hungry heavy industry (one of the things which has left us with a legacy of fossil fuel power stations). The geography - lots of empty space, strong winds, big rivers - lends itself to renewable electricity generation methods.
It's not quite fair to lambast our politicians for not having achieved what they have been able to. |  |
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| Uruguay generates around 98% of its electricity needs from renewables on 22:38 - Dec 17 with 463 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Uruguay generates around 98% of its electricity needs from renewables on 18:49 - Dec 17 by Guthrum |
Yes it is impressive, but has to be put in context if comparing with the UK.
Uruguay's population is just 3.5m, nearly a third of whom live in the capital. It doesn't have a heritage of energy-hungry heavy industry (one of the things which has left us with a legacy of fossil fuel power stations). The geography - lots of empty space, strong winds, big rivers - lends itself to renewable electricity generation methods.
It's not quite fair to lambast our politicians for not having achieved what they have been able to. |
I envy some of these countries. Imagine what we could do if we had persistent winds or were an island surrounded by a sea with some of the largest tidal ranges in the world. All that kinetic potential…
:) we don’t do too bad in fairness, but hopefully my point that we could do so much more comes across. |  |
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| Uruguay generates around 98% of its electricity needs from renewables on 06:41 - Dec 18 with 368 views | Keno |
| Uruguay generates around 98% of its electricity needs from renewables on 22:38 - Dec 17 by Swansea_Blue |
I envy some of these countries. Imagine what we could do if we had persistent winds or were an island surrounded by a sea with some of the largest tidal ranges in the world. All that kinetic potential…
:) we don’t do too bad in fairness, but hopefully my point that we could do so much more comes across. |
Yes but it was easy for them, all their hydroelectric power got handed them on a plate [Post edited 18 Dec 6:43]
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| Uruguay generates around 98% of its electricity needs from renewables on 08:35 - Dec 18 with 312 views | NthQldITFC |
| Uruguay generates around 98% of its electricity needs from renewables on 22:38 - Dec 17 by Swansea_Blue |
I envy some of these countries. Imagine what we could do if we had persistent winds or were an island surrounded by a sea with some of the largest tidal ranges in the world. All that kinetic potential…
:) we don’t do too bad in fairness, but hopefully my point that we could do so much more comes across. |
You can't help but think that had we had the technology in our late Georgian or Victorian eras of endeavour - ironically the phase of human 'advancement' that perhaps cemented us into the spiral of unchecked industrial doom in which we now find ourselves - that we would have seized the 'free' energy from tide, wind and sun to provide all of our needs and condemned fossil fuel use to history, irrespective of purely profit-focussed vested interests.
We've suffered and still suffer from gutless, sh!tty leadership, crippled by semi-hidden and corrupt links to money hoarders which has somehow decided that a future world dead for our children is better than the pain of challenging the status quo. | |
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| Uruguay generates around 98% of its electricity needs from renewables on 09:27 - Dec 18 with 255 views | Bent_double |
| Uruguay generates around 98% of its electricity needs from renewables on 18:49 - Dec 17 by Guthrum |
Yes it is impressive, but has to be put in context if comparing with the UK.
Uruguay's population is just 3.5m, nearly a third of whom live in the capital. It doesn't have a heritage of energy-hungry heavy industry (one of the things which has left us with a legacy of fossil fuel power stations). The geography - lots of empty space, strong winds, big rivers - lends itself to renewable electricity generation methods.
It's not quite fair to lambast our politicians for not having achieved what they have been able to. |
I get that country/population size is a factor, of course it. Not really lambasting our politicians, I just wish they were all a bit more grown-up about thinks such as energy creation and storage, just get together and agree on a long term strategy rather than running down whatever the party in power is doing, then undoing it when they get into power.
There should be cross-party agreements for things like this, and the NHS for example. They're too important to be used as political footballs. | |
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