Record 1.2 gigawatts of new solar added in Germany in July::Germany connected solar systems with a combined capacity of almost 1.2 GW to the power grid in July, hitting a new monthly record and bringing the total solar capacity in operation to 75.1 GW

  • Flying Squid
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    301 year ago

    They better watch out for the Libyans.

  • @[email protected]
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    231 year ago

    Remake of Back To The Future with a solar powered DeLorean, it’d still work.

    Marty: This sucker’s electrical. But the solar panels were destroyed so we need to replace them to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need Doc: 1.21 Gigawatts! 1.21 gigawatts. Great Scott Marty: What the hell is a gigawatt? Doc: How could I have been so careless? Tom, how am I going to generate that kind of power, it can’t be done, it can’t. Marty: Doc, look, all we need is new solar panels. Doc: I’m sure that in 2025, you can pick up solar panels at every Walmart, but in 1955, we’d need more than 86 billion solar cells which would cost more than 2 trillion dollars. Marty, I’m sorry but you’re stuck here Marty: Whoa, whoa, Doc? Stuck here? I can’t be stuck here, I got a life in 2025. I got a folder of white hot memes.

    • @AbidanYre
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      81 year ago

      Tom

      Already casting Tom Holland as Marty?

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    Here in the neighbor country of Austria, the solar growth is limited by the installation capacity currently. There are backlogs of two years for nearly all installation companies, as far as I’ve heard. Prices are also crazy high due to this.

    • @schroedingershat
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      11 year ago

      Sounds like exceedingly poor planning. A team of 3 can install a 7-10kW residential system in a day, or about 60kW/person-month. Or a 1MW utility system in a couple of weeks. This is 1000-20,000 workers that could have been trained any time since 2010 when it was obvious this was coming. Depending on utility/residential split or 0.3-6% of Austria’s unemployed population for 10x the solar installs Germany is making per capita.

  • @[email protected]
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    -381 year ago

    I can’t wait to see how this solar will power their heat pumps in cold dark cloudy European winter :)

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      by not being our single source of energy and our winters not being this cold, dark and cloudy.

    • @NewNewAccount
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      131 year ago

      So smug. So naive.

      This isn’t the gotcha you think it is.

    • SkaveRat
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      71 year ago

      the good news, due to climate change, the winters are currently not that cold.

      I watched NYE fireworks in a tshirt

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      The days where solar is at its weakest also happen to be the ones where eolic is at its strongest.