"In a way the most remarkable thing about the number of people insisting that large-scale reliance on renewables is impossible is that such reliance is already happening in many places around the world, including large parts of the United States. Britain gets 30 percent of its electricity from wind and another 5 percent from solar; Denmark gets 70 percent from renewables, mostly wind. Here in America, Iowa gets 65 percent of its electricity from renewables, mostly wind; California, whose economy is larger than that of most countries, gets 38 percent, mainly from solar.

The renewables revolution is, in short, well under way, and it’s one of the great technological success stories of modern times.

And the Trump administration is trying to kill it."

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-crazy-comes-for-clean-energy?r=itfq8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Paul Krugman: The Crazy Comes for Clean Energy
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3 comments

  1. Hydropower contributes roughly 50-60% of the Pacific Northwest’s electricity generation.

  2. Tired old man acting like a tinpot dictator. Trying to hold back the sea.

    Nothing in the verse can stop this.

  3. Reality has no bearing on the truth that is….feelings. Hate is the most important feeling of course and they HATE renewable energy because, as we all know thanks to the “Americans for being smart and such” organization which is totally grassroots and not funded by large oil corporations, renewable energy is woke. Woke is of course defined as….communist or hippy or authoritarian (but not the good kind of authoritarian) or something bad whatever, so we now know that renewable energy is bad and oil and coal and burning baby birds for fuel is good.

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