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What Country Powered Itself Entirely On Renewable Energy For 75 Days?

Green Car Reports

The idea of an electricity grid powered entirely by renewable energy may seem like a utopian dream, but one country has recently achieved it, albeit briefly. That would be little Costa Rica, which claims to have powered itself using only renewable energy for 75 days.

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Coal Into Cars: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Plugs and Cars

The Good About half our electricity comes from coal, and that will change, at best, slowly as we move to renewables. Of course as our efforts to green the grid take effect, and that's happening already, plug-in cars yield even greater reductions in GHGs. It should be perhaps our last fuel of choice regardless of how it's used.

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