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‘Energy independent’ Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months (theprogressplaybook.com)
submitted 11 months ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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"with wind the single-biggest contributor.... Power production costs have declined “by almost half” .... And the clean energy sector has created 50,000 new jobs.... Ask me what was the impact on the electricity sector in Uruguay after this tragic war in Europe — zero."

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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

By that logic you could also not call the flat thing inside a phone a battery because it can't feed back into the grid.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Other way round, you can take biomass and turn it into electricity easily. But you cant easily turn electricity into biomass. (it is easy on a phone to go both ways tho, google "USB c OTG adapter")