Solar Power Passes 1% Global Threshold

[galdur]

Just now I noticed that hydro-power was listed as a part of the renewable energy. Although I agree that hydro-power is indeed a renewable form of energy, it causes extreme damage to the ecosystem and environment. I have studied various hydro-power projects in the Brazilian Amazon, such as the Belo Monte dam. Millions of hectares of pristine forests are destroyed, and many of the rare fauna species will become extinct.

Yes. But conveniently these kind of expenses are difficult to quantify in financial terms which makes it easier to simply ignore them or at least discuss them as little as possible. And of course profit is always a much more interesting subject than expenses anyway. A glaring example is the weapons/war industry.

[faxmachine]

The world needs to drasticly produce renewable energy as our time is running out, we need to move away from our dependence on fossil fuels. It's sad that the reason things are going so slow is because of the greed of fossil fuel corporations, their money wont be worth squat if the world is destroyed..

[galdur]

The world needs to drasticly produce renewable energy as our time is running out, we need to move away from our dependence on fossil fuels. It's sad that the reason things are going so slow is because of the greed of fossil fuel corporations, their money wont be worth squat if the world is destroyed..

It is dirt cheap energy which world transports run on pretty much 100% and with it commerce. That won´t change much any time soon I guess.Then there´s electricity generation, fossil fuels account for probably two thirds of that. These are hugely important economic interests. Sudden major shifts mean increasing costs which probably isn´t welcome in a world drowning in debt. I doubt that anything meaningful will be done until there´s an uncontrollable runaway crisis that simply can´t be ignored anymore. Or maybe they´ll start WW3 at that point to paper over the mess. Maybe that even started years ago, or at least the prologue to it, at any rate we´ve seen desperate war scams and increasing chaos and there´s always this war DIN.

[Vika NSFW]

I use solar power for heating water.

Non-Pressure Solar Water Heater 150 liter Proudly MADE IN CHINA (Mainland China) build and assembled in Europe by me.

[bryant.coleman]

The world needs to drasticly produce renewable energy as our time is running out, we need to move away from our dependence on fossil fuels. It's sad that the reason things are going so slow is because of the greed of fossil fuel corporations, their money wont be worth squat if the world is destroyed..

It is not economical to run automobiles on electric power. The Lithium-based batteries are extremely expensive, and they needs to be recharged after every 50 or 60 kms. This makes electric vehicles not suitable for long distance travel. So unless the technology improves, I don't have much hope about reducing the fossil fuel usage.

[Nameless Coin]

People should just use solar cells for there lights, because I have seen that a lot of country there is no snow in the winter.
So that is not a good sign also for bitcoin is good power to have if you are a miner.

[MaxDZ8]

Big hydro is a problem nowadays. You will never have a chance at it unless you are a government.
Hydro can still get a lot smaller and distributed, see

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/19/hydroelectric-turbine-energy-london

I would say that 350k for that is very expensive, I've seen bigger plants manufactured at much lower price.

[bryant.coleman]

People should just use solar cells for there lights, because I have seen that a lot of country there is no snow in the winter.
So that is not a good sign also for bitcoin is good power to have if you are a miner.

Looks good in theory, but very difficult to implement this in practical life. First of all, the solar panels are very expensive and solar energy costs as much as 5 times that of wind energy or hydro-power energy. Also, many of the developing nations are not technologically advanced to manufacture these panels on their own, which will force them to import the same from China or Malaysia, further increasing the costs.