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Mix of a country well suited for hydropower (+geothermal) and political will. It's obviously easier for a country with lots of hydropower to go 100% renewable,

• JohnHaugeland 5y ago
  it's a complete fiction, if you bother to look
  • NortySpock 5y ago
    Links to sources would go a long way to helping your case. "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." - Christopher Hitchens.
    • anonymouse008 5y ago
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      • martin_a 5y ago
        "Shitty quotes won't get you far on HN" - Abraham Lincoln
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    • JohnHaugeland 5y ago
      > Links to sources would go a long way to helping your case. Anyone who would actually listen looked it up when I said it, and learned something. The redditors demanded a field guide, and got nothing.
  • toomuchtodo 5y ago
    https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/CR?wind=false&solar=false https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/CR?wind=false&solar=fals... (Electricitymap.org: Costa Rica) 2.36GW of total hydro generating capacity, 595MW of wind, and 1.64GW of geothermal, as well as interconnectors with Panama and Nicaragua to export excess renewables generation (or import when in nation generation isn't meeting consumption). With CR's favorable geography for hydro, it'd make a lot of sense for central america to more tightly integrate their electrical grid, similar to how Tasmania's hydro capacity in Australia is used as a "big battery" for the rest of the NEM (eastern AUS electrical grid). In the above link I provide, the interconnectors are shown with real time usage data below generator capacity for each country/grid.
    • onethought 5y ago
      What do you mean Tasmania’s hydro is used as a big battery? My understanding is it barely provides enough electricity for the state, and the interconnect is used to consume power from Victoria 99% of the time
      • toomuchtodo 5y ago
        https://opennem.org.au/energy/tas1/?range=all&interval=1M https://opennem.org.au/energy/tas1/?range=all&interval=1M Hover over exports on the right hand side. There are imports from VIC occasionally, but Tas Hydro's plan is to build pumped hydro infra [1], as well as an additional interconnector to South Australia [2] which has robust renewables resources. [1] https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/battery-of-the-nation/battery-of-the-nation-FAQs https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/battery-of-the-nation/... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinus_Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinus_Link
        • onethought 5y ago
          Exports are listed as -10%. Im super confused though.
      • jbsimpson 5y ago
        Depending on the season Tasmania exports a lot of electricity to the mainland.
• lesterzone 5y ago
  Education, well suited, several renewable sources. But lots of issues from politics