Solar thread

[Anonymous No.11461154]

>Germany installed a lot of solar panels over the last decade but carbon emissions have not changed and electricity bills have increased.
>Germany is now digging up, buying and burning lignite, the shittiest type of coal, to avoid rolling blackouts.
>The reason is very simple, Germany is a country that gets a lot of clouds and not a lot of sunlight.
Are there any complete, rigorous maps of the parts of the world where solar panels are actually useful? Deserts and plains obviously, but you can't just put solar panels everywhere, because some of that sunlight is already being used for crops.

[Anonymous No.11461164]

>>11461154
Yeah, online you can find shaded maps of total hours of sunlight per region per year. In general, more sunlight, the more viable solar panels are.

[Anonymous No.11461178]

>>11461164
per region sure, but what about per square mile for the entire surface of the Earth, factoring in annual weather?

[Anonymous No.11461240]

>>11461154
Raw electricity prices in Germany have gone down in the last few years.
https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/energie/id_86824152/deutschland-anbieter-erhoehen-strompreise-obwohl-die-kosten-sinken.html

[Anonymous No.11461367]

>>11461154
Russia stronk

[Anonymous No.11462689]

>>11461154
No, the reason is that the krauts are shit. They decided to get out of nuclear before installing enough renewables, then they killed subsidies for installing solar and wind, costing dozens of thousands of jobs.

Result: coal power plants that should've become superfluous are being completed and go online soon.

Germany could satisfy its electricity demand with renewables and a little energy storage; until the latter is available, a couple of gas turbines would do the trick.

I'm not going into the politics of Germany's electricity supply because this is /sci/, but clouds have nothing to do with burning lignite.

[Anonymous No.11462805]

>>11462689
>reason is that the krauts are shit
German here, can confirm. Well, our politicians are. I'd say only 73% of the general public are retarded though.

[Anonymous No.11462876]

>>11462689
That's the point, anon. "Green" energy is, and always has been, a front for the petroleum industry.

[Anonymous No.11462890]

>Giving Prussia to Poland

Weak memez

[Anonymous No.11462914]

>>11461154
>The reason is very simple, Germany decided for completly unrelated reasons to shut down all nuclear reactors
Fixd