Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "8 countries now generate over 99% of their electricity from renewable energy" video.

  1. It's just a matter of scale, bigger countries have more land to play with, there's no technical reason why they can't do the same, it's just a matter of having the political will to make it happen, but either way, over the next decade or so, we are likely going to get some bigger countries generating most if not all the electrical energy, especially in Europe by renewable means. Anyway, renewables has never really been the issue, having a buffer with batteries is where it gets complicated, you need a big enough energy storage as renewables is inconsistent.
    4
  2.  @Leonardo555ZZZZ  That's more to deal with shifting away from Russian energy then it is with renewable.
    4
  3. That's true, but with EV cars and heat pumps taking off in a big way, it ends up replacing oil and gas with electricity for most of our needs. So as long as renewable energy generating is going higher as a percentage of all energy whiles we dump a lot more on it with EV's and heat pumps, then it's only a matter of time before fossil fuels get pushed out.
    2
  4.  @hvh377  It likely will be a mix bag for countries that produce a lot of fossil fuels, the countries that will really benefit the most from renewables are countries in Europe, Japan and many others, countries that have to input a lot of it, eventually, once they can produce most if not all there energy needs internally, they stand to save a fortune, but that's bad news for countries that sell a lot of fossil fuels because they have to find ways of boosting the economy to make up for that loss.
    1
  5. I suspect the energy being generated by renewables is going to keep rising in a lot of countries that over the next decade or two, most if not all the electrical needs are being meet. Many countries are already having days and weeks of generating all the electrical needs, and that's likely going to go higher into the months as the years go by until we get to a point where most or all the electrical energy is renewable. On top of that, a lot of countries are doing a big push on EV cars and heat pumps, which over the long run will reduce the need for oil and gas and it seems like everything is going electrical because it's a lot more flexible in how we can get that energy., we can, if we are bold enough, generate all our energy locally. Now if we can just master some kind of wind turbine that can generate meaningful energy on our homes, that would solve many problem, solar and wind would complement each other to have a more consistent energy generating, it would also reduce how much of a buffer you need with battery if we have a more constant flow of energy being generated and I suspect over the long run, more of us are going to want to generate the energy we use on-site, mainly because it will lower bills, whereas solar and wind farms, they are basically generating a lot more energy, but it's not lowering our bills, if they did, I'm sure there would be far less resistance on planning permission, so when doing it locally, you cut out the middle men and get the savings right away, depending on what you need.
    1