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‘Energy independent’ Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months (theprogressplaybook.com)
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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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[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait until we have our first Wind War.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's what we call it after eating beans all day

[–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago

We call it Aladdin's revenge. Turning the blanket into a flying carpet and all that.

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We'll control the wind and rain. It was a saying in soviet block during cold war and elites really thought they would. By spraying chemicals in clouds etc. Disgusting.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cloud seeding? That's very much a real thing, although its effectiveness is disputed.

[–] MrSilkworm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A bit of info about an "experiment" on the subject https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye

[–] vacuumflower 1 points 1 year ago

What's disgusting about this?

Also Soviet agriculture, say, used anti-hail rockets to prevent conditions for hail from forming.

It was both useful for agriculture in mountainous regions and also allowed people in places like NK to arm themselves with something relatively long-range when they had to fight for their lives.