Lebanon is running on fumes
Lebanon is running on fumes
Complete loss of electrical power because both main power stations are out of diesel. f.cking hell.
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Re: Lebanon is running on fumes
They seem like the kind of place that could be meeting a huge chunk of demand with solar alone.
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It's not clear where they would put the solar farms. Lebanon has the third-highest population density in the world among non-microstates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... on_densityBird on a Fire wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:24 pmThey seem like the kind of place that could be meeting a huge chunk of demand with solar alone.
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Re: Lebanon is running on fumes
It's sunnier than the UK but perhaps the hilly/mountainous terrain is a problem setting up big arrays of panels?Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:24 pmThey seem like the kind of place that could be meeting a huge chunk of demand with solar alone.
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And solar farms are fairly vulnerable to terrorist and state attack. From whatever the f.ck is going on in Syria now, or Israel in retaliation to whatever.sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:32 pmIt's not clear where they would put the solar farms. Lebanon has the third-highest population density in the world among non-microstates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... on_densityBird on a Fire wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:24 pmThey seem like the kind of place that could be meeting a huge chunk of demand with solar alone.
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Tip: invest in the transition to distributed, non-brittle energy while you're prospering.
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Roofs would be a start.sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:32 pmIt's not clear where they would put the solar farms. Lebanon has the third-highest population density in the world among non-microstates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... on_densityBird on a Fire wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:24 pmThey seem like the kind of place that could be meeting a huge chunk of demand with solar alone.
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Yes, though a country that can’t afford to import fuel for generators will also struggle to invest in solar farms.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:24 pmThey seem like the kind of place that could be meeting a huge chunk of demand with solar alone.
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They’re doing that already privately. However, most of the population lives in apartments so there isn’t much roof space per personbjn wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 4:04 amRoofs would be a start.sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:32 pmIt's not clear where they would put the solar farms. Lebanon has the third-highest population density in the world among non-microstates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... on_densityBird on a Fire wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:24 pmThey seem like the kind of place that could be meeting a huge chunk of demand with solar alone.
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In hot countries, a common use of solar power on your roof is a non-electrical panel to heat a tank of water. It's probably thermodynamically more efficient than converting the solar energy to electricity, especially if you then use the electricity to make hot water,
But you can't run an entire modern economy on the energy that comes from the solar panels that will fit on the roof of apartment buildings. Indeed, for some height of the building, you can't even run all of the apartments in it on that amount of electricity.
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