Hell, even villages in Denmark have solar panels scattered across their roofs. The US could get so much power for cheap.


Hell, even villages in Denmark have solar panels scattered across their roofs. The US could get so much power for cheap.

The main problem is how to store it for when the sun doesn't shine. That's where some interesting research is needed.

Originally shared by Tina Vigilante

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  1. Franz Graf25 March 2014 at 02:03

    Andreas Jellinghaus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony ;)

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  2. Andreas Jellinghaus25 March 2014 at 02:04

    Lars Balker last time I checked storing hydrogen was leaky and the leaking hydrogen was worse to the ozone layer than fckw? Thus please find a different way that is better for the atmosphere...

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  3. Elsa Balderrama2 June 2014 at 09:24

    I don't know how it is in Germany, but this example could help. I live in Chihuahua (right in the big red spot). The sun is unforgiving, yes, but solar panels have a limit of how much they can provide at the maximum exposure.

    The problem could be the length of the day. I went to Sweden two weeks ago and the sun came up at freaki'n 4:00 am and went down at 9:00pm. While in my region it comes up at 7:00 am and goes down at 6:00pm. We've got whole 6 hours less than sweden to generate electricity, so we have to cover up for 6 more hours of storage a day and get even more solar panels to make up for the wasted sunlight.

    So, in the US and México, solar panels might be getting powerful bursts of energy they can't even handle, but they're too short.

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