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Old 10-09-2021, 03:28 PM
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Apparently it makes you feel good to ignore all the fossil fuels and pollution generated by it that is required to produce the silicon to make the solar panes.
Most of the electric power in Europe is generated by nuclear energy so if that is the dust we are behind, I agree, we haven't built a nuclear powered electric generation plant in years.
My brother-in-law is German and pointed out to me that Germans bought big time into the solar panel hype and windmill electric generation. Neither one has lived up to the grandiose promises of the hucksters selling the idea.
Agree, but I see the current time with solar energy having similarities with the nation's transition from horse-drawn buggies to the Ford Model T. Look back at the many incarnations of improvements to internal combustion vehicles. We are in the Model T era of using solar energy.