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RedDevil · 12-13-2018, 03:55 PM

2 MW wind mills? Why play around with tiny stuff like that?
Were getting lots of 8 and 10 MW wind mills these days. Every single one provides power for thousands of homes.

We do have some solar farms -but area is in short supply. Most solar panels go on roofs.
We have a problem here - many thousands of old farm houses, stables and shacks etc. have roofing containing asbestos. Those will have to be removed within a few years. The plan now is to facilitate it by replacing every asbestos roof with solar paneling, subsidized, as a prelude to mandating solar paneling for every new or rebuilt roof.
That would mean a 20 to 50 times increase in solar infrastructure investment compared to now. Then it would start being significant.
If they really get to do it, that is.

As of today we broke our yearly sunshine record at 2022 hours. The coming days will be bright too, we may well end the year at over 2100 hour of clear skies. The average is less than 1600...

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