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Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 (newscientist.com)
Sweden is the first country to significantly upgrade its carbon ambitions since the Paris accord in 2015. The country has passed a new bill committing to cut its net carbon emissions to zero by 2045. New Scientist reports: The law was drawn up by a cross-party committee and passed with an overwhelming majority in parliament by 254 votes to 41. The legislation establishes an independent Climate Policy Council and requires an action plan to be updated every four years. Sweden had previously committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2050. It already gets 83 per cent of its electricity from nuclear energy and hydropower, having met its 2020 target of 50 per cent renewable energy eight years ahead of schedule. To achieve carbon-neutral status, the country will focus on reducing emissions from transport by increasing the use of biofuels and electric vehicles. It plans to cut domestic emissions by at least 85 per cent, and offset remaining emissions by planting trees or investing in projects abroad.
Actually, automation has played a significant role in the loss of coal jobs. Here's a citation: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/coal-jobs-trump-appalachia.html. In order for coal to remain competitive with other forms of energy, mining companies have automated a lot of the mining process. It increases the efficiency of the mining operations while also being far safer. Although natural gas has caused the loss of coal mining jobs in the short term, it's led to increasing automation as coal mining companies attempt to remain competitive. In the longer term, that automation ensures that coal mining jobs will never return. Even if the price of natural gas was to dramatically increase, those coal jobs are lost permanently due to automation.
You mean the election in a district where the GOP is down 60,000 votes from November? I'd take that swing nationwide any day of the week. That kind of hit would be crippling even if the Supreme Court does nothing about the partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Wait till Trumpcare fails. There's a reason they won't even tell their own Senators what is in it.
What? Sweden is not and has never been part of NATO, you can't just make up facts.
Sweden has military cooperation with many countries and has participated in many UN mission together with NATO countries, and occasionally has been under NATO command as well.
But before relations deteriorated with Russia there were cooperation with them as well. Joint exercises etc.
This page is created by the company that runs the swedish powergrid
http://www.svk.se/drift-av-stamnatet/kontrollrummet/
At the botton you can se live data on the types of energy produced in sweden
Kärnkraft = Nuclear
Värmekraft = Heat power (burning wood and the like)
Ospecificerat = Undefined, for instance oil or electricity pushed back to the grid when trains uses the breaks.
Vindkraft = wind
Vattenkraft = Hydro
The map above (of the entire nordics and baltic area) show how electicity is transported and what the price are in different regions.