I've just done a piece on the first commercial wind turbine ever built (in Denmark 1978), which went ahead despite all the experts saying it wouldn't and couldn't work. Only it did, and is still working.
(volewica.blogspot.com/2024/11/…)

It made me optimistic: the share of wind and solar in total global electricity production has risen by 20% per annum compound since 2003. At that growth rate, they'll reach 80% by 2034. We will have broken the back of rising emissions.

#Hope

45 years on: first wind turbine still going

Those around in the late 1970s may remember seeing magazine photographs of Danish students and volunteers carrying a massive wind turbine bl...

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