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Feldheim, a 150-Person German Village, Powered Entirely by Renewables

posted by martyb on Thursday December 03 2015, @07:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-how-many-electric-vehicles? dept.

Tree Hugga writes:

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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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Swervin on Thursday December 03 2015, @03:26PM

    by Swervin (2444) on Thursday December 03 2015, @03:26PM (#271378)

    You should drive through western Iowa sometime. Wind farms everywhere, right on top of farm fields.

    Observe the shadows, then zoom in for closer looks, there's probably street view available also but I haven't checked:
    https://www.google.com/maps/@41.492997,-94.6867602,3159m/data=!3m1!1e3 [google.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @10:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @10:23PM (#271592)

    I also thought that the GP was working from a limited data set.
    1,270,000 results [google.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Friday December 04 2015, @03:01AM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday December 04 2015, @03:01AM (#271670) Journal

    But notice how the fucked up every field?

    Planting and harvesting those fields where the service roads run right through the middle on wandering paths must be a pain in the ass.

    Zoom in on the german fields (link I posted) and look at how they are all in a row, usually at the edge of a field, and very little planting area is cut up by these roads. A much better job.

    The farmers in Iowa caved, the took the money.

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