Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  WTF is Australia doing? Aren’t they aware they have plenty of sunshine and an insanely long shoreline?

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Australia is just an oil company, a coal company, and a mining company disguised as a trench coat. The Liberal party (essentially just American Republicans opposed to guns) spent 2 decades killing any green energy initiatives in favor of fracking the Outback

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  • Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    IIRC Australia mines a huge amount of coal

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  • Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shame, innit? They could be the n1 Solar panel producers and exporters…oh well.

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  • daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Australia likes its coal like america its guns.

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  • makingrain@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The sun doesn’t shine at night. Have a look when it is daytime there and you’ll see upwards of 60% of their electricity is solar.

    Or use the EM site and check for past statistics.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wind blows at night at the shoreline.

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      • makingrain@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I thought you’d at least have a chuckle when you realised that it was night time when you made your dumb comment.

        Over the last 12 months it is 25% solar and 13% wind. The population centres on the east coast are worse than WA, SA and TAS in that regard.

        Yes, 45% of coal generated electricity is awful, but you were still incorrect in saying Australia is doing nothing.

        A collosal solar farm and transmission cable to Singapore is under construction which is will be a great achievement when complete.

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Really cool. Thanks for the share. Also quite depressing, most countries (even rich ones who have like triple responsibility) are barely even trying.

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