gizmodo.com — The Danish isle of Samsø, over the past 10 years, has gone from exclusively using fossil fuel energy sources, to living exclusively off renewable energy. Using a combination of onshore &offshore turbines, private mini-turbines, solar panels, straw-burning furnaces & biofuels, the 4,300-resident island has become a sort of a sandbox for green . . .
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phreak79Jul 5, 2008
The Danish are world leaders in wind turbine technology so it's not surprising that they have places like this. Legoland too. Quite a place :)
sleepyjjkJul 5, 2008
This is wonderful - I hope 100% renewable energy will be viable all over the world within the next 50 years. (And I hope that's not unrealistically hoping for too much)
lisaawesomeJul 6, 2008
Psst Denmark = Danish, the Netherlands = Dutch. Try to think of Denmark as the home of those delicious morning pastries. mmmmm.
typhoon2009Jul 6, 2008
That was sø interesting. Also, Iceland's another pretty green island... pretty sure all their power and heat comes from hydroelectric and geothermal sources.
alex2Jul 7, 2008
Singapore imports it's energy and food resources. The only way they'd be able to power that island without generating carbon would be to build nuclear power plants.
stabbingkittensJul 7, 2008
Banality.
redsaintJul 7, 2008
All over Denmark as well. The reason our cheese doesn't taste as good as in other European countries may be because of the use of un-pasteurised milk. Danish laws doesn't allow that.
kellercjJul 7, 2008
Sorry to take the wind out of everyone's sail, but Samsø does not completely run on renewable energy, nor is the island "energy independent." Yes, they do produce a lot of electricity via wind, but as the New Yorker article points out:"...as a practical matter, Samsø’s production of electricity and its needs fluctuate, so that sometimes it is feeding power into the grid and sometimes it is drawing power from it."While some of the vehicles on Samsø run on biodiesel produced on the island, other vehicles run on imported petrol. The offshore windmills are meant to offset the emissions from this petrol, but the island still imports energy when needed and is still tied to the electric grid.
simongrayJul 10, 2008
High schools serve beer too (they usually arrange monthly parties for their students).