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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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[–] 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.