Until a weather event blocks out most of the sunlight. An extreme scenario would be what happened to the dinosaurs, however smaller scale versions or that, such as large volcano eruptions, seem entirely possible and could heavily restrict the amount of sunlight you have access to for long periods of time.
Portugal lies in Southern Europe, we get plenty of sun, and we make heavy use of solar, but that still isn’t enough sometimes, and I’m pretty sure we sometimes get our energy from Spain, who themselves use nuclear.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 3 months ago
UK has wind.
I’m taking east Europe for instance.
ticho@lemmy.world 3 months ago
FWIW, Baltic countries are going hard for solar, see lemmy.world/post/17098210
blimpkun@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Baltics powered by Finnish and Swedish nuclear.
ticho@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well, that’s a bald-faced lie. Maybe if we were only talking about Lithuania, which does import big chunk of its energy budget from Sweden, but Estonia and Latvia generate most of their energy on their own - and according to the linked article, plan to generate even more in near future.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Everyone is or at least tries to portray they are. Your article could be written for almost any country in the world.
But that doesn’t mean a country can be run on solar alone.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Who is suggesting solar alone?
ticho@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, the article definitely could not be written for any country in the world, because it lists concrete actions, numbers for past few years, and concrete plans for next few years.
But judging from your comments here and elsewhere in the thread, you do not care about discussion, and will move goalposts whenever it suits you. You are not a nice person. So, PLONK.
Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Why does eastern Europe get less sunlight?
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Less than Spain. There is a winter. Geography and suitable areas less common. Distribution network made for power plants.
Nuclear plants can be a better cost effective fit.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s like 3 am there