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Portland Commits To 100 Percent Renewable Energy By 2050 (cnbc.com)
City of Portland and Multnomah County officials have announced this week that they are committed to 100 percent clean energy by the year 2050. "Getting our community to 100 percent renewable energy is a big goal," Ted Wheeler, City of Portland Mayor, said in a statement. "And while it is absolutely ambitious, it is a goal that we share with Nike, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Google, GM, Coca Cola, Johnson & Johnson, and Walmart. We have a responsibility to lead this effort in Oregon." CNBC reports: Multnomah County is the most populous county in Oregon. Its Chair, Deborah Kafoury, welcomed the news. "This is a pledge to our children's future,'' she said. "100 percent renewables means a future with cleaner air, a stable climate and more jobs and economic opportunity.'' Portland is among a number of U.S. cities looking to embrace renewables. Wheeler noted that tackling climate change would need to be a collaborative effort. "We don't succeed addressing climate change by government action alone,'' he said. "We need our whole community: government, businesses, organizations and households to work together to make a just transition to a 100 percent renewable future.''
For a politician to commit to anything more than ten years in the future is meaningless. They likely won't be around to be held accountable.
Windows is a bonfire, Linux is the sun. Linux only looks smaller if you lack perspective.
Cool... good for them.
Portland will have 100% renewable energy, but the roads will still be crap, and all of the schools falling apart with no extra curricular activities. And 10K homeless people will be able to get free light.
And everyone will have to mumble, because they banned dental fluoride.
If Portland wants to become clean, safe, and healthy, they should worry about their Heroin problem and all the homeless junkies first.
Who said anything about clean? this is only about renewables.
Not much of a challenge when over 70 percent of electricity generated in Oregon is currently from renewables. The only coal plant is shutting down in 2020 and by 2050 most of the existing plants will have long been replaced.
Hydro is only clean if you consider wrecking ecosystems and altering rivers to be clean.
You can only destroy an ecosystem once, and after that it is a sunk cost.
Not really; some reservoirs emit quite a bit of methane from biomass decay, and "greenies" know it (and complain about it).
Ezekiel 23:20
Seriously, Portland could do it in several years with geothermal. They are loaded with volcanos all-around the area. Easy to tap. And it is criminal that they have not.
Sigh. Why don't you learn something about the generating facility at The Geysers before you decide how "easy" it would be. Because right now you are running your mouth without anything in your head.
TD;DB: (Too Difficult, Didn't Bother) The Geysers has been perpetually over budget and under planned production, has produced a superfund site out on Butts Canyon road where they used to bury the drums of toxics washed off of the turbines, and injecting primary-treated wastewater into the ground to keep steam production up has caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage due to increased seismicity in the region.
Suggesting a geothermal project in California as an "easy" solution is proof that you should be summarily ignored.
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