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NNadir

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2. That is rather meaningless, since the matter is not how much but WHEN.
Thu Jun 11, 2026, 10:12 PM
Jun 11

The solar industry requires redundancy, which is expensive and unsustainable. There is the normal illiterate and wasteful enthusiasm for unsustainable and expensive redundancy, unsustainable batteries, and worse, hydrogen - the latter a front for fossil fuels.

They still burn coal in Germany.

They don't in France and haven't for decades.

France eliminated the use of coal. The Germans embraced coal and gas:

Germany says new gas power plants will be online by 2031 following EU deal

The Germans of course, could make their gas dependence worse by wasting gas to make hydrogen for a marketing scam.

The trivial, expensive, and extremely damaging solar industry is lipstick on the fossil fuel pig. It has been useless, if we define, as I do, "useful" eliminating fossil fuels.

Here's the solar reality:

From Inside Climate News:




Virgin Group Company BMR Energy Announces Plans to Rebuild St. Thomas Solar Farm



Renew Economy:



Solar groups deny damage, pollution claims after Danas

(There's reference to denial again.)



Why the solar revolution is in grave danger—and how it can be saved



Um...um...um...

It's garbage.

Today I saw a defender of this garbage post obscene pictures of floating solar cells. Those will fail on an even worse scale as all is required to destroy them is heavy seas.

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Great news! Permanut Jun 11 #1
That is rather meaningless, since the matter is not how much but WHEN. NNadir Jun 11 #2
"Rather meaningless!?" OKIsItJustMe Jun 11 #5
Garbage? thought crime Jun 12 #6
Coal is another way to say "buggy whips." NoMoreRepugs Jun 11 #3
More here OKIsItJustMe Jun 11 #4
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