Unfortunately Sweden have large car manufacturing industries and Volvo do not believe in battery powered cars. Though they do make some pretty smart plug-in hybrids. Putting a second electric engine on the rear axel instead of building a conplicated gearbox for two motors.
However we may become leaders in powering heavy vehicles through direct power transfer, like trains. Either through overhead lines or through rails in the road. We have quite a large pilot project that I think will examine three competing systems.
21 GW of solar energy is not the rough equivalent of 20 small nuclear reactors, but rather of two (or perhaps three). By average a solar panel produces about 10% of its max capacity, since the sun does not shine at full brightness all the time. A nuclear reactor produces at its max about 90% of the time. Wind turbines produce by average about 30% of their max capacity.
It would be much easier to compare different power generation technologies by energy expected to be produced per year (about 13 TWh for the 21 GW solar installation), rather than max power. The later can be very misleading when we compare different technologies.
Ironically I think Sweden would classify as a "right to work" state. It has been illegal to force employees to belong to a union for at least 20 years.
Of course there are lots of other structural advantages for unions in Sweden compared to the US. But from the swedish perspective it sometimes seems like the US labor movement is fighting for a model we abandoned decades ago.
It is not really unexpectedly that Sweden voted for the resolution. It was rather the swedish vote against Palestine joining Unesco that was unexpected. The reason for that vote seems to be because the education ministry happens to be held by a pro-israeli party.
Unfortunately Sweden have large car manufacturing industries and Volvo do not believe in battery powered cars. Though they do make some pretty smart plug-in hybrids. Putting a second electric engine on the rear axel instead of building a conplicated gearbox for two motors.
However we may become leaders in powering heavy vehicles through direct power transfer, like trains. Either through overhead lines or through rails in the road. We have quite a large pilot project that I think will examine three competing systems.
Of course I made a calculation error. It should be about 18 TWh if the panels produce 10% of the max capacity by average. And 10% may be too low.
21 GW of solar energy is not the rough equivalent of 20 small nuclear reactors, but rather of two (or perhaps three). By average a solar panel produces about 10% of its max capacity, since the sun does not shine at full brightness all the time. A nuclear reactor produces at its max about 90% of the time. Wind turbines produce by average about 30% of their max capacity.
It would be much easier to compare different power generation technologies by energy expected to be produced per year (about 13 TWh for the 21 GW solar installation), rather than max power. The later can be very misleading when we compare different technologies.
Ironically I think Sweden would classify as a "right to work" state. It has been illegal to force employees to belong to a union for at least 20 years.
Of course there are lots of other structural advantages for unions in Sweden compared to the US. But from the swedish perspective it sometimes seems like the US labor movement is fighting for a model we abandoned decades ago.
It is not really unexpectedly that Sweden voted for the resolution. It was rather the swedish vote against Palestine joining Unesco that was unexpected. The reason for that vote seems to be because the education ministry happens to be held by a pro-israeli party.