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Originally Posted by suspectnumber961
Better yet...paint them white and then put solar panels on them as in Germany?
German Solar Power Capacity Hits All-Time High...Again - CleanTechnica
Initial reports say that Germans installed roughly 320-megawatts peak (MWp) of additional solar power capacity in August.
That takes total installed solar power capacity to more than 30-gigawatts peak (GWp), making Germany the first country in the world to generate so much electricity from sunshine.
There’s now more solar power installed in Germany than the rest of Europe combined, note industry watchers from Germany Trade & Invest, the national foreign trade and inward investment promotion agency. |
That will be the same Germany where their own solar panel maker
went bust due to cheap chinese imports (so much for Green jobs), and where they are building
new coal power stations (required to back up the renewables) and have
restarted some of their Nuclear stations too because all that solar and wind just doesn't cut it.
All of this makes their power
very expensive and unreliable too. Oh and the wind system
needs to be heated to stay reliable - heated by burning Diesel which last time I checked makes more CO2.
Germany's wind power chaos should be a warning to the UK - Telegraph
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On Friday, September 14, just before 10am, Britain’s 3,500 wind turbines broke all records by briefly supplying just over four gigawatts (GW) of electricity to the national grid. Three hours later, in Germany, that country’s 23,000 wind turbines and millions of solar panels similarly achieved an unprecedented output of 31GW. But the responses to these events in the two countries could not have been in starker contrast.
In Britain, the wind industry proclaimed a triumph. Maria McCaffery, the CEO of RenewableUK, crowed that “this record high shows that wind energy is providing a reliable, secure supply of electricity to an ever-growing number of British homes and businesses” and that “this bountiful free resource will help drive down energy bills”. But in Germany, the news was greeted with dismay, for reasons which merit serious attention here in Britain...
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