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Akiasakias t1_j9w745y wrote

Reply to comment by DataWeenie in TIL That Toronto, the largest city in Canada, is not only south of London, Paris, and Berlin, but also south of Milan, Italy. by scorr204

Solar intensity is so low that far north. Germany has paid 4x as much on solar investments for 1/3 the results as California.

Order of magnitude less efficient.

I'm all for Green tech, but pick the ones that work best where you are!

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Bigfoot25 t1_j9wp9yv wrote

Have you been to west Texas lately? It's all wind turbines as far as the eye can see. In fact if I remember correctly Texas is either the fastest growing or the top renewable electric generator in the USA.

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Clemson_19 t1_j9x24fk wrote

And they try and blame their power outages on it ??

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drygnfyre t1_j9xy2af wrote

Yes, but that's just typical political theater. If they really believed what they said, they wouldn't still be investing in wind and solar in West Texas. But they are.

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timo103 t1_j9yf1cw wrote

Nah just shut down nuclear plants in favor of Russian gas and huge coal mines -.-

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scorr204 OP t1_j9x2xxg wrote

Germans have a history of making bad engineering decisions.

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dew2459 t1_j9yjoms wrote

More making bad political decisions. It was the politicians who decided to shut the nuclear plants to make the extremist anti-nuclear greens happy, not the engineers.

Germans have a generally good reputation for engineering.

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