re: Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

I wonder what the average daily temperature was. No way you can pull that off in a southern U.S. summer. Millions would die of complications from Swamp arse.

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Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

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I just ran 50+ years in a row on fossil fuels. Thanks Obama!

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It looks like renewables are feasible.

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Happy to report I was the 100th downvote.

Very misleading as always. So many obvious details left out and it seems they really cherry picked the conditions. It has happened twice before since 2019.

I don’t know about you but energy is necessary 24/7/365 and not only when possible due to a certain climate condition for 6 days in November. Perfect example of headline sensationalism.

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why stop at 7? If its feasible then ride 24/7/356

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It's Portugal (Europe) so it should be 365/24/7?

BS! Is hey stored up a weeks worth of energy and then started the timer? None of the energy was produced by coal or fuel? BS!

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It looks like renewables are feasible.

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Because you had one sunny/windy week?

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Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row...
It looks like renewables are feasible.

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Aw cmon baw do you know what portugal is? It's a tiny country, poorest in western europe, often a dictatorship, very low growth and energy usage, and receives prevailing winds off the entire atlantic ocean.

You couldn't run New Jersey on renewables for six days, and Portugal is 5x larger.

I think Portual is probably one of the betters to do this based on their landscape, weather, and location. They have great access to the sea, very windy, very sunny, and have downstream rivers to dam.

That being said I think this is absolutely great, we should be doing what we can to invest in alternative forms of energy so that we are never completely reliant on one form. However, you cannot skip steps in this. You can't just say alright we did it for 6 days, now we can decomission fossil fuel plants because we can do it always like this. I think the next step would be to run in parrellel while slowly making the renewables more and more of the primary energy source. That can give you a better idea of what seasonal price fluxuations you would see, how reliable it can be during different times of the year, how well your batteries can maintain for their lifecycle as opposed to under new and optimal conditions. The goal would be to slowly over the course of years you would want to try and make fossil fuels a complete secondary/backup system. But you would have to understand what events can take all of your renewables offline, and how much fossil fuels would you need in order to perform backup power for the whole country with no down time.

THis process alone could take 10-15 years and they could determine that they need to expand their fossil based plants because they need to have complete backup in case of emergencies. So many of the climate activists in the world want a complete switch over today and that cannot happen. Its completely impossible, so I guesxs we will continue to see them glue theirselves to the ground.

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The longer the sustainable energy wackos are allowed to mislead the public without being held accountable, the harder it will be for all of us.

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This cannot be stated enough! The ramifications of climate change policies will bankrupt us all.