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Denmark Plans To Be Coal-Free In 10 Years

Posted by samzenpus on from the cleaning-the-system dept.

merbs writes "Earlier this year, Denmark's leadership announced that the nation would run entirely on renewable power by 2050. Wind, solar, and biomass would be ramped up while coal and gas are phased out. Now Denmark has gone even further, and plans to end coal by 2025.

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  1. Re:Breaking the stranglehold of other countries by TapeCutter · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "Renewable" energy requires natural gas in order to compensate for fluctuating output.

    "Base load" is a marketing term for coal, there is no generation technology that matches output to the demand curve of a modern city, they all need to be balanced via gas turbines and pumping water uphill purely for economic efficiency, there's nothing to stop a nation over provisioning with generators of any kind to eliminate the need for fast switching gas turbines if the politics demands that kind of self punishment.

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