My cats already roam 'neath my panels, the place is called Rainbow Hills Ranch, there's a Chinese restaurant in town, and, while the cattle next door don't poop gold bars, their poop does grow schrooms, so no need to move.
"Meanwhile the rest of the world runs on FF's"
Austria's largest state goes 100% renewable November 5, 2015
"We have invested heavily to boost energy efficiency and to expand renewables," said Erwin Proell, premier of 1.65-million-strong Lower Austria.
"Since 2002 we have invested 2.8 billion euros ($3.0 billion) in eco-electricity, from solar parks to renewing (hydroelectric) stations on the Danube," Proell told a news conference.
The state in northeastern Austria now gets 63 percent of its electricity from hydroelectric power, 26 percent from wind energy, nine percent from biomass and two percent from solar.
In Austria as a whole, which voted against nuclear power in a 1978 referendum, 75 percent comes from renewables and the rest from fossil fuels.
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