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NNadir

(33,512 posts)
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 10:57 PM Mar 2022

Wow. I didn't realize that Denmark still has coal plants, but they do and they're operating now.

I mean they spend all this time drilling in the North Sea for oil and gas, I assumed that they would at least burn gas.

However, having never really looked beyond them screwing up the North Sea and checking out how short lived all that wind junk is on the Master Register of Wind Turbines, I never looked at how they generate electricity, whether after bitching at Sweden about its nuclear plants they still burned coal.

Apparently they do.

As of around 3:45 AM Copenhagen time, 3/8/22:



As I was writing this post, the wind seems to have died down, with Danish wind capacity utilization falling to 2.17%, and the carbon intensity of West Denmark has risen to 377 g CO2/kwh.



In France as of this writing the carbon intensity of electrical generation is 79 g CO2/kwh.

Thus in "percent talk" Danish electricity if 477% more carbon intensive than French electricity.

Have a nice evening.


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