{"id":374387,"date":"2025-04-09T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374387"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:31:29","slug":"jillys-40-clean-power-not-quite-what-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374387","title":{"rendered":"Jilly\u2019s 40% Clean Power Not Quite What It\u00a0Seems!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Ian Magness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silly Jilly is back!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The world used clean power sources to meet more than 40% of its electricity demand last year for the first time since the 1940s, figures show.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A report by the energy thinktank Ember said the milestone was powered by a boom in solar power capacity, which has doubled in the last three years.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/08\/clean-energy-powered-40-of-global-electricity-in-2024-report-finds<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, dig into the small print, and you discover things are not quite as rosy as Silly Jilly pretends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That wonderful solar power only supplied 7% last year, with another 8% from wind. By far the biggest contributor is hydro power, at 15%, which has been steadily turning out similar amounts of electricity for decades.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the claimed 40% comes from nuclear and tree burners, neither of which could remotely be described as \u201cclean\u201d \u2013 certainly not amongst Jilly\u2019s bien pensant circle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reality of course, electricity is only a minor part of the world\u2019s energy mix, so her figures become even less impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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