No fossil fuels

More of this, please!

Apparently Abe and cabinet will keep investing. Look, he's recently become BFF with iranian leadership.

Nice timing too, the "deal" has allowed iran to open up the oil market. Now they can finance more terror.

I wonder how many protesters drove to the protest.

I wonder how many protesters drove to the protest.

Most of the SEALD's kids are still in college so they do not drive yet. But with their high-hopes, they all have their "dream car" . . . a BMW, Benz or perhaps a Porsche.

No nukes and no fossil fuels. Are they going to live like Neanderthal men?

Meanwhile, Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone: Zero emission milestone reached as country is powered by just wind, solar and hydro-generated electricity for 107 hours. Check out the news

No fossil Fuel, no Nuclear Power.....nothing can please you guys!

@Moonraker yet Portugal has much lower power consumption and much more available space for renewables. If Japan was to rely just on renewables alone every available hill, land space would be covered in solar panels and wind turbines, not to mention the environmental damage caused by clearing large spaces of vegetation. No please we need some real world fixes for Japans fossil nuclear power addictions, not some fantasy land proposals

so no nukes, no gas or petrol, or diesel, right whats left? solar power, and wind, thats Japan stuffed in the winter time!!! Oh! dear do these people ever think??? sorry I forgot about the humble horse, so all high rise books of flats need to have stables now.

Why do 100 sorry 120 Million people need 54 or what nucs?

This is why we end up with liars winning elections all the time. People are unable or unwilling to discuss the complexities of any important issue. It's all or nothing. No nuclear. No fossil fuels. Why can't we be like Portugal (with 1/13th the population and 1/25th the GDP of Japan)?

Nobody wants to hear anything but one sentence soundbites parroting what they want to hear. The world's a complex place, but those with simple and pat answers win elections.

Don't like Portugal? How about Germany then? "News of the zero emissions landmark comes just days after Germany announced that clean energy had powered almost all its electricity needs on Sunday 15 May." Perhaps they live in "some fantasy land" too.

Germany pays electrical energy users (a negative rate) to gobble up the excess energy on their grid (only happened once so far). (Germany still imports natural gas -Gazprom (Russia).

These young people are protesting at the right time and are correct. Japan has huge renewable energy resources that are untapped. The savings from not importing this energy would really help the economy and lower energy costs would also help lower prices for consumers, business and especially manufacturing. An agreement with Russia for natural gas and going to renewables for electricity would be a big move and maybe even throw a Sakhalin (islands) agreement in there.

People need to understand they are also paying for TEPCO/Fukushima right now and the higher costs of not running the nuclear plants (cheaper power) and importing oil (high cost) and coal. -Expect energy prices to rise for a few years to cover those costs. Politically it would be very difficult to make a drastic Japan energy change now = only the private sector is adding solar and wind capacity to escape the high (and rising) energy rates.

clean energy had powered almost all its electricity needs on Sunday 15 May." Perhaps they live in "some fantasy land" too. LOL so it was a Sunday when all the most factories are closed, can it power the other 355days and can it power 100% at night, wont even come close, but people still think its 2060 not 2016, yes fantasy land indeed.

2060? From the same article: "James Watson, the CEO of SolarPower Europe said: 'This is a significant achievement for a European country, but what seems extraordinary today will be commonplace in Europe in just a few years. The energy transition process is gathering momentum and records such as this will continue to be set and broken across Europe.'" Watson is another fantasist? Europe has a clean energy surge spurred by the EU’s renewable targets for 2020.

Japan could do much more. It has wind, wave, solar, geothermal and biomass potential. And it could probably reduce its energy consumption too. How much is the energy budget for concreting the country, for example? Surely that is already a big cause of vegetation clearing.

itll take at least another 30~40 years until base load power will be able to majority powered by renemwables. coal, oil nuclear will be around for many years to come. like it or hate it. but to think it can be done within the next 5~10yrs is just plain deluded. Germany wont even be able to do it within that time, but one day yes

The demonstrators were calling on Japan to stop investing in fossil fuels.

OK. And are they suggesting an alternative? I apologize if I have missed that.

Meiyouwenti: >No nukes and no fossil fuels. Are they going to live like Neanderthal men?

Of course the general public will not sacrifice as the radicals demand. They are going to continue to live lifestyles requiring abundantly available energy whether not the things they consume use energy generated in Japan or overseas. The nutjobs will demand an end to nuclear and fossil fuels while also demanding that the government ensures that huge quantities of energy are produced so they can live the comfortable lifestyles that they enjoy now. The utopians ignore the glaring difference between fantasy and real life by pretending it isn't there - kind of like the humongous Japanese national debt.

I wonder how many protesters drove to the protest.

Probably zero, or close to it. The protest was held in front of the finance ministry, in Tokyo. So you can't accuse these protestors of hypocracy on that point.