50% of nations power from Solar

[Lessss]

http://insideclimatenews.org/breaking-news/20120527/germany-sets-solar-power-record-50-electricity-demand

Regular power production companies are spitting mad.

[Hillhater]

Its quite an achievement but i notice that the "50%" of demand was achieved on a Saturday when the industrial demand is low.

The record-breaking amount of solar power shows one of the world's leading industrial nations was able to meet a third of its electricity needs on a work day, Friday, and nearly half on Saturday when factories and offices were closed.

I wonder what the output is on a wet monday in december. ?

[Dauntless]

Gee, how do yo suppose they accomplished this? Did they go out and do something to see all these solar panels installed? Or did the sit around threatening to pout and stamp their feet? '". . . .It's America potentially leading the world," Gerry Brown said at a signing ceremony in Silicon Valley.' So we'll just pass a law that we get to have what we want. See, actions don't make things happen, LAWS do.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/13 ... y-20110413

[Jeremy Harris]

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This is getting pretty close to spam, in my view. I'd advice keeping your gratuitous ads in the "for sale" area.

[dogman]

As I understood it, the German govt had the best solar panel subsidy in the world. 20 year contracts to buy all the power at a really good price had every farmer putting panels in his grazing field. Gotta get paid for by somebody though. But, perhaps a good investment if the middle east catches a nuke someday.

[deronmoped]

Honey, did you see our electric bill for this month. It went from $100.00 to $1,000.00!

I would hate to live in Germany. California is bad enough, we pay about 200% more then some places around the country for our electricity.