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Originally Posted by RedDevil
I think it is fairly obvious that an abundance of energy is what enables much of our progress.
That the energy is often derived by burning fossil fuels is a given, but is not essential, as the Nordic countries prove.
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Everyone just skipped over my post so I will state it again: Sweden gets 50% of it's electricity from nuclear, 50% from hydro.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr...ctor_in_Sweden
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Norway is 95% hydro.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr...ctor_in_Norway
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Finland is 25% nuclear, 17% hydro, 24% import 5.6% wind, 1.9% other
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr...tor_in_Finland
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Brazil is 88% hydro.
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Quebec is 90% hydro.
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Ontario is nuclear 63% hydro 26%.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr...Canada#Ontario
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France is nuclear 76% hydro 10%
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr...ctor_in_France
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If you are blessed with world class hydro, you can make effective electricity. If not, and you don't want to burn carbon fuels we should have kept working on the development of molten fuel reactors.