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Someone remind me again on the stats of battery toxicity and pollution vs fossil fuels?

Also, is all of Norway energy produced by wind or solar? Or does this just move the tail pipe and introduce more toxic battery waste?

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The irony is that Norway is making money (and to their credit pumping it back to the people) by exploiting fossil fuel.

It's mostly hydro. Solar isn't worth it unless you like the concept because hydro is so cheap and there isn't much sun on average. When it rains a lot or there is windstorm in North Europe you can get paid to use electricity.

You can check the data on this website: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

The vast majority of Norway's power is hydro power with some wind and solar. There's a single coal plant on Svalbard which is about to be shut down, and oil/gas is used mainly by the oil industry to generate power for their own use on-site. Though this is also being phased out in the future.

-Actually, I believe the Svalbard coal power plant was shut down earlier this week; the plant in question now runs diesel generators instead. While not very green, it is slightly better than burning coal.

Ah, nice! I knew I remember reading about it in the news just recently, but I guess I misremembered the timing. Shows you how fast information decays I guess.

> Someone remind me again on the stats of battery toxicity and pollution vs fossil fuels?

Can do! Fossil fuels cause more harm than the waste products of batteries. The myth of batteries being worse for the environment has been _thoroughly_ debunked. Feel free to do your own research.

Interestingly 90% of energy in Norway is produced with hydro and the rest is mostly wind power

98% of the domestic needs are from renewable sources.

Oh the downvotes for asking questions…

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