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Originally Posted by Table 5
As much as that manifesto is mumbo jumbo, I can get behind this as a goal to strive for. I don't think its crazy to want to wean ourselves off of having to burn coal to power our cities.
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Canada is most of the way there, with more than 60% of electricity from hydro and a further 15% of CO2-free nuclear, giving it the 2nd lowest CO2 intensity electricity in the G7. Basically, all Canada really needs to do is replace its coal plants with nuclear and replace natural gas with hydro where environmentally practical.
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There are a few towns in the US who are already getting all of their energy from renewable sources...ie Aspen is now running entirely on renewable energy http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...ewable-energy/. Yes, small (and usually rich) places for sure, but a small step forward that shows that things are possible.
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The city is buying enough electricity from renewable sources to match its annual usage, but it's not running off purely renewable sources 24/7 because it's impossible to do so, unless the location has a large source of hydro power.