... and imported electricity from Norway and Sweden. They also have some of the most expensive electricity in the "developed" world. (A similar situation exists in California.)
Their electric grid has about four times the greenhouse gas emissions of nuclear powered France.
What gas Denmark doesn't burn in their own electric power plants they export to other nations. Their greenhouse gas emissions are most honestly judged by the amount of fossil fuels they are extracting from the earth, whether or not those fossil fuels are used domestically or exported.
Denmark has many fine qualities but I don't think their electric grid is worthy of emulation.
Trashing the ocean with short-lived wind turbines isn't anything environmentalists should support. In the long term these wind turbines will have done nothing to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gasses humans ultimately dump into earth's atmosphere, or even buy us any time to better deal with the global heating crisis that is upon us.
That there is any sort of energy transition happening now is a lie. We are building these huge industrial scale wind and solar projects to make ourselves feel better. If we humans want to quit fossil fuels we just have to do it, and that is not going to be easy. If we don't do it we'll go out the same way as all the other novel species on earth whose populations exploded and suddenly collapsed.
Listening to all the people complaining about gasoline prices does not make me hopeful. Within our current economic system it is damned near impossible for any affluent or wealthy person to reduce their own environmental footprint in any meaningful way.
This thing we call "economic productivity" is a direct measure of the damage we are doing to the earth's natural environment and our own human spirit.
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