SvennoJ said:
We're down to 5% of 'polluting' energy sources, gas and other. Over 25% is from water, 10% alternative (wind mostly, solar and a little from biomass) and 60% nuclear energy. Which is carbon clean anyway, but not renewable. Since nuclear is cheaper, less money to stimulate wind and solar farms will keep us hanging on to the ageing nuclear plants. Some will still be needed for peak demand anyway. Plus we sell power to the USA |
Getting 25% of power from dams isn't something to brag too much about. I'm sure some of those dams are on salmon and other migratory fish waterways. Just saying they aren't as environment friendly as one might think and those fish ladders at side of dams don't really work. Wind farms chop up birds also but when looking at grand scheme losing some fish and birds is a lot better than dumping a shit ton of oil and other toxic chemicals (used in fracking) into the environment or mountain top removal for coal.
