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Chinese Province Larger Than Texas Just Ran for a Week on Only Renewable Energy
- King-Aaron 9y agoI recall there used to be an argument around base-load generation not being fully suitable to be provided by renewables... That argument seems to have subsided however with reports like this. Can someone ELI5 what's changed?
- qbrass 9y agoThey have enough dammed water to do it with hydroelectric for a week to win a record.
- NonEUCitizen 9y agoNot scalable to other Chinese provinces, as most Chinese provinces have WAY MORE than 5.8 million people... "These renewable energy sources reportedly provided Qinghai and its population of 5.8 million with 1.1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity — equal to about 535,000 tons of coal."