Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Sophie Scholl]

Here is an overview of energy generation in Europe:
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Whoa.  Coaland not Poland, eh?  Lithuania has done an amazing job switching over to renewables.  Seems like there must be an interesting story there.

[Tamas]

Here is an overview of energy generation in Europe:
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Whoa.  Coaland not Poland, eh?  Lithuania has done an amazing job switching over to renewables.  Seems like there must be an interesting story there.

Doesn't Poland export energy to Germany nowadays?

[The Larch]

Here is an overview of energy generation in Europe:
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Whoa.  Coaland not Poland, eh?  Lithuania has done an amazing job switching over to renewables.  Seems like there must be an interesting story there.

I don't know where they got their numbers from, but official data puts Lithuania at 28% renewables in 2016, rather than the lanslide presented in that graph.

[Valmy]

*weary sigh*

No....

[Valmy]

Somewhere Margaret Thatcher is smiling at that UK graph.

[Habbaku]

So, as someone who hasn't done much (any) research into the Biden connection, what do I read up on or post to people that are just mindlessly repeating Jim Jordan's comments there?

[Barrister]

BC is 100% Hydro.

edit, we also have private solar and wind feeding into the grid.  We were going to supply Alberta with our new hydro project, but with the the new government there, not sure that will happen.  Quebec can also supply those on the East coast.

Your figure is not correct CC.

BC produces 90% of its electricity from hydro, 6% biomass/geothermal, 2% natural gas, 1% wind, and <1% petroleum.

https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/nrg/ntgrtd/mrkt/nrgsstmprfls/bc-eng.html

[Grey Fox]

https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/nrg/ntgrtd/mrkt/nrgsstmprfls/bc-eng.html

From that website.

Virtually all of the electricity produced in Quebec comes from renewable sources. In 2016, Quebec's power sector generated 0.3 MT CO2e emissions, which represents 0.4% of Canada's GHG emissions from power generation.

Pretty cool figure for my province.

In 2017, BC produce 76.4 TW.H of Electricity
Alberta, 82.4 TW.H
Ontario, 152 TW.H
Quebec, 212.3 TW.H

[Barrister]

I know I started this with posting Manitoba's 99% renewables rate, but we should avoid too much back-patting.  All three are based on hydro.  BC, Quebec and Manitoba have very favourable geography for hydro power (so does Ontario, but they also have a massive population).

That's just not doable in other jurisdictions (like Alberta).  There's some room for cross-border electricity sales, but those three provinces don't have the generating capacity to power all of Canada through hydro.

[Grey Fox]

Alberta's far from QC but if you want to buy, we will build plants to generate it.

[Maximus]

Hydro is also pretty environmentally damaging, but concentrated locally rather than global.

[Maximus]

It could probably provide a decent baseline. I wonder how set up costs compare to nuclear.

[Malthus]

It could probably provide a decent baseline. I wonder how set up costs compare to nuclear.

Depends on where, though in the US at least it appears to be cheaper than nuclear: see "Projected LCOE in the U.S. by 2022 (as of 2016) $/MWh" (LCOE factors in the costs of the plant: "The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), also known as Levelized Energy Cost (LEC), is the net present value of the unit-cost of electrical energy over the lifetime of a generating asset. It is often taken as a proxy for the average price that the generating asset must receive in a market to break even over its lifetime. It is a first-order economic assessment of the cost competitiveness of an electricity-generating system that incorporates all costs over its lifetime: initial investment, operations and maintenance, cost of fuel, cost of capital.").

Problem is of course that hydro is only available in certain places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#United_States

[viper37]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d446rCau-Q8

[grumbler]

*weary sigh*

No....

I'm not understanding why the Right seems to be flipping out over the fact that Hunter Biden once earned $50,000 dollars in a single month.  That's not a huge figure, and Rudy Giuliani charges more than that for a single speech.