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Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumption was from renewables

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a German company suggesting to cut a large piece of rock (think: hundreds of meters in diameter and depth) lose and lift that by pumping water beneath it. A moving mountain, it would be. Totally crazy stuff, I should check if that ever made any progress. Here is a German article about it. As far as I remember, the real issue is that pumps/generators with the required powers are very expensive. https://www.in…

Omega Tau Podcast had a great episode about this company and project: https://omegataupodcast.net/299-gravity-storage/

I did not know that yet, thanks for pointing it out!

Re: Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumption was from renewables

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In Europe, “biomass power,” as it’s technically called, is now counted and subsidized as zero-emissions renewable energy. As a result, European utilities now import tons of wood from U.S. forests every year—and Europe’s supposedly eco-friendly economy now generates more energy from burning wood than from wind and solar combined.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/26/biomass-ca...

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