Comments on: Spain Leads the World in New Solar Energy Development

By: nitrazepam

nitrazepam — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:17:19 +0000

Not only Solar power is growing on Spain.
Also Wind power turbines will be installed over the coast of the iberian peninsula, elevating Wind power generated MW

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:32:45 +0000

Solar, wind, wave, hydro, tidal and geothermal Power sources must be tapped to a maximum to avoid the “Bump” at the end of the cheap oil era, coming sooner than you think, judging by various indicators, including government positions on GM and Chrysler, Air travel, and other high oil consumers. Battery cars are one high tech breakthrough from being preferred to gas cars, High speed, inter-city rail, with decent terminals and cheap plug-in commuters can solve a lot of North American problems, and possibly eliminate or at least reduce air travel, which is very hard on oil. Intercontinental flights may get very expensive, and soon! Cruise ships are gaining popularity, and large V-8 gasoline engines are rapidly becoming part of the past. high speed, super economical Euro-diesels are popular but will lose out to Diesel/electric plug-ins from VW likely. China has a “Volt” clone going on sale in the U.S.A. in 2011 – for half the price of a GM built “vaporware to date Volt”. China has a whole line of eco-cars coming soon to the ‘states, to fill in while we build our massive solar, wind tidal, hydro, tidal and geothermal installations and our “Keep the cash at home” high-speed rail system. We cannot afford to make the Chinese error and go nuclear, they are just one human error from Armageddon, in all ten new reactors built in China this year, and knee deep in nuclear waste! When the good folks of Chernobyl return home, maybe we can try it? In the mean time, the clean, perpetual, or renewable, if you prefer resources beckon a wiser America. Life will never be the same here in the U.S.A. – of course, it never was, was it!

By: Jonathon Hewitt

Jonathon Hewitt — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:05:55 +0000

Great idea! But solar power alone is not going to solve our problems. Check out The Venus Project and see their ideas of how a city can be self-sustaining through not only solar power but renewable energy renewable resources, green architecture, organic farming, and many more innovative building systems. Help support their solar power system ideas.

By: Eric N

Eric N — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:09:15 +0000

Where is this report ? I don’t see it anywhere on the ren21 site.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:39:31 +0000

For better or for worse, this is going to be short-lived for Spain — and not because somebody else is racing in to take its place. Spain achieved what it did through a generous subsidy program. For 2009 that subsidy program has been capped at a level so low that the cap was, for all intents and purposes, met on January 1. Virtually no new modules are being shipped to Spain this year, and installations in the US will probably exceed those in Spain in 2009. I suppose the silver lining is that this has contributed — some say significantly — to the rapid decline in PV module prices that has been observed since about the start of the year….

By: Elizabeth Barrette

Elizabeth Barrette — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:54:35 +0000

This is a good example of a country picking alternative power suited to their locale: Spain gets plenty of sun, and has some thinly-populated dry areas better used for sun-farming than plant-farming. Japan doesn’t really have much room for solar installations, except maybe rooftops.