Tokelau Becomes First Country To Go 100% Solar

First time accepted submitter zonky writes "Tokelau has become the first country in the world to go 100% solar power generation, moving away from their entirely diesel power supply, which formerly supplied the energy needs of the 1400 residents of their small south pacific Island Nation. From the article: 'All three atolls in the South Pacific dependency, a New Zealand territory, will have their own solar power system by the end of October, despite a slight delay switching on the first system.'"

Re:Soon to become 100% hydro

[LabRatty]

And an easy, tasty treat.

http://slightlyodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/How_to_prepare_a_kiwi.jpg [slightlyodd.com]

They have taken the attribution off the image and reposted it, swiped from on old tshirt http://www.globalculture.co.nz/ [globalculture.co.nz]

Re:Hawii

[PopeRatzo]

It might be because I'm a techie, but I don't have any problems with tastefully done solar panels

Me neither.

Plus, if I lived in Hawaii, I'd hardly even use electricity. My ukulele doesn't plug in and the only juice sitting in a hammock requires is pineapple. And how would you even install AC outlets in a little grass shack?

I'd catch my own tuna for sushi and rarely wear clothes and me and my wahine would watch the humuhumunukunukuapua go swimming by...

I'm sorry, I drifted off for a minute there.