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martyb
on Thursday December 03 2015, @07:28AM
from the but-how-many-electric-vehicles? dept.
from the but-how-many-electric-vehicles? dept.
The electricity is sourced from solar panels, wind turbines, and heat from biogas. In addition they have a backup wood chip furnace. They also have a fairly beefy battery of 10 MW capacity to help level the fluctuations in production. The village runs its own grid and pays less for energy.
News articles: The Independent, The Huffington Post, GreenBiz.
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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 1) by bart on Thursday December 03 2015, @09:13AM
You make good points, though you forget about the energy-costs of the batteries and solar cells.
But my point is, there should be far more system calculations, where honest attempts are being made to calculate total system costs, instead of one or other special interest group promoting their agenda. Me personally, I like the idea of small scale energy infrastructure, but I'd like to know that it's actually energy efficient on a global scale, instead of just moving the problems somewhere else (like to China, where they build the solar panels and batteries)