Growth in german wind capacity is slowing. Soo… then the plan is to keep on with lignite and gas? Am I missing something?

Installed Wind Capacty - Germany

German Wind Capacity

  • Ertebolle@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Based on what? And how can you possibly make that claim with any confidence if nobody’s built one until now?

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      nobody’s built one until now

      They’ve been a technology that we’ve known about since the 1960s… we determined in the 60s it wasn’t as efficient as uranium.

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        We also determined in the 1960s that solar power was a pipe dream and it would never be efficient enough on a large scale to be worth investing in.

        Maybe don’t use an Appeal to Antiquity.

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          Sourcing scientific research from 1960 is not an appeal to tradition and you know that perfectly well.

          In response to your other point:

          1960 - Hoffman Electronics creates a 14% efficient solar cell. 1961 - “Solar Energy in the Developing World” conference is held by the United Nations. 1962 - The Telstar communications satellite is powered by solar cells. 1963 - Sharp Corporation produces a viable photovoltaic module of silicon solar cells. 1964 - The satellite Nimbus I is equipped with Sun-tracking solar panels. 1964 - Farrington Daniels’ landmark book, Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy, published by Yale University Press. 1967 - Soyuz 1 is the first manned spacecraft to be powered by solar cells 1967 - Akira Fujishima discovers the Honda-Fujishima effect which is used for hydrolysis in the photoelectrochemical cell. 1968 - Roger Riehl introduces the first solar powered wristwatch. 1970 - First highly effective GaAs heterostructure solar cells are created by Zhores Alferov and his team in the USSR. 1971 - Salyut 1 is powered by solar cells. 1973 - Skylab is powered by solar cells. 1974 - Florida Solar Energy Center begins.

          What a surprise, you’re wrong. Who could have seen that coming?