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Chernobyl A Step Closer To Becoming A Solar Farm
http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Solar-Energy/Chernobyl-A-Step-Closer-To-Becoming-A-Solar-Farm.html[font face=Serif][font size=5]Chernobyl A Step Closer To Becoming A Solar Farm[/font]
By Irina Slav - May 05, 2017, 2:31 PM CDT
[font size=3]The wastelands around Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant are about to begin their transformation into a large-scale solar power farm, capable of generating half the energy that Chernobyl did.
Solar power generation is the only way the no-go radiation zone around the disaster site can be used productively, as the land will not be fit for farming or anything else over the next few hundred years. Luckily, there is abundant sunshine in the area, making it easier to convince finance providers to fund such a project.
Initially, Ukraine’s Ecology Minister Ostap Semerak announced plans to turn Chernobyl into a solar farm in the middle of last year, saying 4 MW of solar power should be installed by the end of 2016, to bring the country’s total to over 570 MW from 453 MW as of end-June. Eventually, installed solar capacity should reach 1 GW, which would require US$1.1 billion in investments.
Now, Semerak has told VOA that a Ukrainian-German joint venture has made the first private investment—US$1.1 million—in the Chernobyl solar power project, planning a small installation of 1.5 MW which should be completed by the end of this month.
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By Irina Slav - May 05, 2017, 2:31 PM CDT
[font size=3]The wastelands around Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant are about to begin their transformation into a large-scale solar power farm, capable of generating half the energy that Chernobyl did.
Solar power generation is the only way the no-go radiation zone around the disaster site can be used productively, as the land will not be fit for farming or anything else over the next few hundred years. Luckily, there is abundant sunshine in the area, making it easier to convince finance providers to fund such a project.
Initially, Ukraine’s Ecology Minister Ostap Semerak announced plans to turn Chernobyl into a solar farm in the middle of last year, saying 4 MW of solar power should be installed by the end of 2016, to bring the country’s total to over 570 MW from 453 MW as of end-June. Eventually, installed solar capacity should reach 1 GW, which would require US$1.1 billion in investments.
Now, Semerak has told VOA that a Ukrainian-German joint venture has made the first private investment—US$1.1 million—in the Chernobyl solar power project, planning a small installation of 1.5 MW which should be completed by the end of this month.
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...toxic than radiation.
Out of the Ashes
The fact that humans are radiation paranoids, and therefore are killing the planet, in this case actually helps the environment.
There is nothing, nothing more stupid, than distributing chemotoxic crap - which is what every damned solar cell on this planet will be in thirty years - in this region where wildlife is thriving.