Comment by raffraffraff
2 hours ago
This is the biggest issue I have with headlines "[country] got all of its electricity from [some renewable] today!" when the reality is they rely on some other supply when [some renewable] has zero output.
Like you say, a lot of countries get a pass because a neighbour invested billions and decades building nuclear. Or else they fall back to coal/gas.
It's not clear what your issue is or whether you would prefer that country X used absolutely no renewables whatsoever and derived all their energy needs including transport and electricity from damaging and limited fossil fuels.
No, they are arguing that's incredibly misleading to say "Denmark phased out coal and replaced it with wind".
Indeed it would be had such a headline been actually published by any of the major media outlets.
Perhaps I missed that, is there a source link?
Except that it's not.
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