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Old 03-30-2011, 01:02 AM   #45 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
Germany is already getting ~15%+ from renewables, and they are planning to get 100% of their electricity from renewables by ~2050...
I thought that was Denmark? In any case, it's an illusion. There is no German (or Danish) energy grid, there's a single European grid.

http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/lib...euro_trans.GIF

So Germany or Denmark or wherever can claim to run on renewables, because there's French nuclear and Swiss hydro to pick up the slack.
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