Thank you for these additional thoughts on solar. I took part in a political battle a few years where our city was going to other states to purchase their solar energy, but was ignoring buying the surplus electricity available from local solar roofs. We won the battle, and local people continue to put rolar on homes and large buildings. I rode past the Wallops Island, VA space facility recently and saw they now have a lot of solar arrays on their extensive green lawn areas. I can imagine that in some hot growing areas, carefully spaced and elevated solar arrays might actually improvide growing conditions by reducing excessive heat and solar drying of the ground.
Europe will probably continue to use more wind as much of it is further north than the US, and thus has weaker son rays. We have so much relatively deserted unforested land in our hotest and sunniest regions that solar may be a good choice. I look forward to seeing how the use of US cadmium telluride for solar panels balances out with our current process of sending high quality quartz to China for panel production and reimport the finished solar panels back to the US. So far as carbon fuels are concerned, there needs to be a balance between best uses and needs far in our future for essential and desireable petroleum non fuel uses.
I wonder how much other exportable productivity Russia might develop if its stopped mining and selling its raw wealth and instead developed manufacture. Police states do not encourage the minds of thier most creative and energetic people to develop things that enhance the group. Mostly people with intelligence and energy look out for number one and the heck with the rest. This explains the case of the army commander who recently committed suicide. Theft by the big guys was equaled by theft by the little guys and one made money by letting things be gotten away with. So when the military hardware was needed, it was useless, and the guy responsible for its care knew his goose was cooked.
Thanks for the plug
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4051027/posts?page=109#109
Retired 4-star US army general Jack Keane says Ukraine can win war
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It is sad to see so-called Freepers rooting for Putin or passing sly inuendos about Ukraine and its leaders. Glad to see more Freepers taking up the fight against totalitarianism and invasion, Recently I was informed about how the discovery of oil and gas around Crimea and under Donbass in 2012 resulted in exploration contracts with oil majors. Then in 2014 Putin took Crimea and began inserting Russian mercenaries into East Ukraine to foment rebellion and discord. The oil companys left. Freeoer Kevmo has taken some comments I wrote, and some from other freepers and posted the excellent and informative link below about the Oil in Ukraine Issue and the War. It is about a lot more than Nord Stream, and completely explains Putin’s cruel decisions.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050958/posts
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