It looks pretty grim when you look at energy as a whole though.
Yes, but we have to construct some wind turbines to give more money to lobby.
We need at least one more nuclear plant to keep powering the transformation of the vehicle stock without resorting to polluting forms of electricity generation.
On the one hand: hooraayy!!!! On the other: not all countries have the luxury of abundant water flowing down from high mountains.
Yeah, let’s keep lying to ourselves that we are the best instead of looking for what we could improve.
Greenest mix? You got that right.
Puff-Puff give.
Moved from Poland to Switzerland and I must say you, you can actually feel in the air that Swiss is producing it’s energy clean.
Air is not smelling funky.
That was first thing I’ve noted during my first winter here.
This is extremely misleading. It’s correct in terms of production of electricity, not consumption. Switzerland needs to import a lot of its electricity to cover the demand. The part that is imported is not green. And electricity is only a part of total energy mix of course. A huge part is oil and gas for industry or transportation.
This app is called Electricity Map for those who don’t know. I look at it regularly, believe me it varies a lot during the day. We get a lot of electricity from German coal and French nuclear plants…
But… There is literally greener colors visible on the picture.
Well this map really varies during the day because of peak gas plants etc. Another thing: france has cleaner electricity than us because they have a ton of nuclear. Its just that in this period lots of their plants are under maintenance so thet import dirty german electricity
But then there are still those dumb types that write on or read Watson News who want to impose a CO2 tax…
Hey honest question. Why is Germany so terrible in sustainable energy when the Green Political Party and the social Zeitgeist has been so strong around climate and social issues? I can’t make sense of it.
This is true due to the plentiful hydro reservoirs in Switzerland.
However, kindly note that this website gives the instant CO2 intensity of the country on average.
What I mean is that at the top of the picture you see 08:00 on Tue 29/11. That’s the busiest weekday, in winter, right in the morning peak.
It’s still correct, but just bear in mind that this is is the worse moment to compare us vs. countries which need to call on peaking gas or coal units.
The same picture would look very different on a different day and hour.
Albania , Serbia, Bosnia , N. Macedonia and Croatia are not stated in this map, hence this statement is not true.
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[source](https://app.electricitymaps.com/map)
Sweden, Norway and Iceland disagree
It looks pretty grim when you look at energy as a whole though.
Yes, but we have to construct some wind turbines to give more money to lobby.
We need at least one more nuclear plant to keep powering the transformation of the vehicle stock without resorting to polluting forms of electricity generation.
On the one hand: hooraayy!!!! On the other: not all countries have the luxury of abundant water flowing down from high mountains.
Yeah, let’s keep lying to ourselves that we are the best instead of looking for what we could improve.
Greenest mix? You got that right.
Puff-Puff give.
Moved from Poland to Switzerland and I must say you, you can actually feel in the air that Swiss is producing it’s energy clean.
Air is not smelling funky.
That was first thing I’ve noted during my first winter here.
This is extremely misleading. It’s correct in terms of production of electricity, not consumption. Switzerland needs to import a lot of its electricity to cover the demand. The part that is imported is not green. And electricity is only a part of total energy mix of course. A huge part is oil and gas for industry or transportation.
This app is called Electricity Map for those who don’t know. I look at it regularly, believe me it varies a lot during the day. We get a lot of electricity from German coal and French nuclear plants…
But… There is literally greener colors visible on the picture.
Well this map really varies during the day because of peak gas plants etc. Another thing: france has cleaner electricity than us because they have a ton of nuclear. Its just that in this period lots of their plants are under maintenance so thet import dirty german electricity
But then there are still those dumb types that write on or read Watson News who want to impose a CO2 tax…
Hey honest question. Why is Germany so terrible in sustainable energy when the Green Political Party and the social Zeitgeist has been so strong around climate and social issues? I can’t make sense of it.
This is true due to the plentiful hydro reservoirs in Switzerland.
However, kindly note that this website gives the instant CO2 intensity of the country on average.
What I mean is that at the top of the picture you see 08:00 on Tue 29/11. That’s the busiest weekday, in winter, right in the morning peak.
It’s still correct, but just bear in mind that this is is the worse moment to compare us vs. countries which need to call on peaking gas or coal units.
The same picture would look very different on a different day and hour.
Albania , Serbia, Bosnia , N. Macedonia and Croatia are not stated in this map, hence this statement is not true.
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