Trump calls wind turbines "losers".
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Trump calls wind turbines "losers". Meanwhile in Denmark, our wind turbines currently produce 92 percent of all the power consumed.
But you do you, America.
️@randahl Don’t listen to him. He’s not well.
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You might need to check your sources. Maybe there is an issue with the year of that data or what power consumption it refers to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Denmark
The US' percent of power generated isn't as good but we do have a lot more than I thought we did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_States
P.S. Wind power is not a "loser". Our president projects a lot of his own insecurities.
@HikerGeek my source was the Danish electrical grid live stats found here:
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Trump calls wind turbines "losers". Meanwhile in Denmark, our wind turbines currently produce 92 percent of all the power consumed.
But you do you, America.
️@randahl Maybe we could have a MAGA-fired power plant. That ought to solve a couple of problems at once.
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Trump calls wind turbines "losers". Meanwhile in Denmark, our wind turbines currently produce 92 percent of all the power consumed.
But you do you, America.
️@randahl T has most his money, his actual assets in real estate. And most of that is sea side. Once people believe there’s no chance to stop climate change, no chance to stop sea level rise, the value of his assets will drop to zero. It won’t happen once the water hits the stairs of the lobby but when people stop to believe the narrative. “Green energy” and wind in particular reminds people of something is at odds with this world and so he must fight it with whatever he can.
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Honest question. In Denmark, are your houses heated with electricity or gaz?
I live in Quebec and most of our houses are heated with electricity, so when we hear 92% from wind turbines, it blows our minds because the largest part of our electricity usage goes to heating and it is a lot.
If your houses are heated with electricity and your produce 92% of it with wind turbines, well, I'm impressed.
@MichelPatrice @randahl heat pumps are slowly replacing combustive heating here, but in many places we have large, centralised plants that rely on burning things (garbage and food production biproducts such as straw, mostly, but alas also wood). However, these plants are also being converted or amended with heat pumps or other forms of electric heating.
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Honest question. In Denmark, are your houses heated with electricity or gaz?
I live in Quebec and most of our houses are heated with electricity, so when we hear 92% from wind turbines, it blows our minds because the largest part of our electricity usage goes to heating and it is a lot.
If your houses are heated with electricity and your produce 92% of it with wind turbines, well, I'm impressed.
@MichelPatrice 69 percent of Danish homes are heated by district heating plants. These plants primarily burn biomass like wood pellets which is CO2 neutral. The heat is distributed through large diameter well insulated pipes.
But the Danish building code requires very well insulated homes: Typically 200 millimeter Rockwool in air tight brick walls, and 300 millimeter Rockwool in the roofs.
Many homes have a backup heating source like a wood stove or a heat pump in the livingroom.
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Trump calls wind turbines "losers". Meanwhile in Denmark, our wind turbines currently produce 92 percent of all the power consumed.
But you do you, America.
️@randahl small correction: 90% electricity - we still have a significant amount of non-electrical power use, e.g. for central heating plants.
Right now we basically produce 100% electricity from windmills and yet plants are still burning stuff: Some electricity is produced by plants that also produce central heating, and we need heating right now (so electricity is basically a biproduct), so the surplus is exported.
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Every day I love Denmark a little more.
@AnnieBuddy I should make a video about Denmark one day.
I feel fortunate to live in a country which has made many intelligent political choices.
At the same time, I am not too impressed with how the very high taxes make it very hard for smaller companies.
For instance, we design a lot of furniture and clothes, but because of huge taxes on labor, you can only make a new company if it has many employees handling global logistics.
Two women making lounge chairs in a garage — no chance.
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Do you honestly think any significant percentage of the people on Mastodon agree with what Trump says?
@nlarson830 In my experience no one on Mastodon agrees with Trump.
Mastodon is like the inverse of X.
I am only trying to raise awareness of the advantages of green energy.
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@Su_G that is a great result for Australia!
It is quite funny that our problems are opposite. You spend a lot of power cooling down your houses, but in Denmark most houses do not even have an air-conditioning system.
We on the other hand spend a lot of power plant energy on heating in the -10 °C winters.
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Meanwhile, right now, New Zealand is running on 99% renewable electricity.
https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and-market-data/consolidated-live-data
@zl2tod that is impressive, but of course… you also have geothermal energy from Mount Doom, I suppose.
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