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Rhode Island Governor aims for 100% renewable power by 2030
« on: January 18, 2020, 10:07:37 am »
Rhode Island Governor aims for 100% renewable power by 2030
January 17, 2020 / 2:48 PM
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(Reuters) - Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed an executive order on Friday aiming for renewable energy to provide all of the state’s electricity by 2030 to fight climate change.

With the order, Rhode Island joins several other states that have set 100% clean energy goals, including Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Maine, New York, Washington and Virginia, according to Environment America, an environmental group advocating the country produce all of its energy from clean and renewable energy. ...

In 2018, the state got 93% of its net generation from gas, 3% from biomass, 2% from wind and 1% each from oil and solar, according to EIA data.  ...
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Re: Rhode Island Governor aims for 100% renewable power by 2030
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2020, 11:12:21 am »
That female's residence(s) need to be cut off from the power grid and run only on locally produced wind and solar. That would be the only way she might realize that her Enviro-Fantasy cannot be made real.
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Re: Rhode Island Governor aims for 100% renewable power by 2030
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2020, 12:06:06 pm »
That female's residence(s) need to be cut off from the power grid and run only on locally produced wind and solar. That would be the only way she might realize that her Enviro-Fantasy cannot be made real.
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[H]umanity repeats the worst mistakes of previous generations and ... every free, prosperous civilization will eventually be destroyed by that small fraction of its people who find no satisfaction in anything but anger.
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