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Portugal Ditched Fossil Fuels for 4 Days. Can We Go Longer?
2016-05-27 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Portugal became the latest country to coast solely on renewable energy this month, going without fossil-fuel power for four days straight. Denmark, Germany, and others recently have declared similar feats. But are these temporary clean-power surges a mark of real change, and if so, how far can that go? "This is definitely signalling a shift in terms of the energy mix," says Luca De Lorenzo, project manager at Sweden's nonprofit research group Stockholm Environment Institute. Overall, renewable...
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