Re: "Gavin Newsom Fever," "Exceptional" power outage in Spain and Portugal affects millions of people
JTEM <[email protected]> Thu, 1 May 2025 13:33:30 -0400
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On 4/30/25 5:51 PM, P. Coonan wrote: > 56% of Spain's energy is renewable. No it isn't. Not even close. It's also important to note that Spain's energy grid collapsed, so whatever actual percentage is "Renewable," it's too much. What you probably meant, and were too dishonest to say, is that most of the energy PRODUCED by Spain -- not consumed, PRODUCED -- is some flavor of "Renewable"... whether it's actually renewable or not. Of course there's massive arguments over even WHAT "renewable" means. Is nuclear energy renewable? Is new uranium growing on trees? And speaking of trees: If you burn one tree per year to heat your house, you will have replaced that first tree, absorbed all the CO2 from that first tree you burned, in a mere 40 to 70 years. Which means you're running a deficit of 39 to 69 trees, and only then if there's zero growth in energy demand over that time. Yet we pretend THAT is renewable... -- https://jtem.tumblr.com/tagged/The%20Book%20of%20JTEM/page/5