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Solar power grew faster than any other source of fuel for the first time in 2016, the International Energy Agency said in a report suggesting the technology will dominate renewables in the years ahead.
The institution established after the first major oil crisis in 1973 said 165 gigawatts of renewables were completed last year, which was two-thirds of the net expansion in electricity supply. Solar powered by photovoltaics, or PVs, grew by 50 percent, with almost half of new plants built in China.
"What we are witnessing is the birth of a new era in solar PV," Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, said in a statement accompanying the report published on Wednesday in Paris. "We expect that solar PV capacity growth will be higher than any other renewable technology through 2022."
Solar Grew Faster Than All Other Forms of Power for the First Time
International Energy Agency
Solar power will only work until the sun burns out, but dinosaurs are forever.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 06 2017, @08:06AM (3 children)
Interesting, thanks. Did you get your components retail, or were you able to hook into a wholesaler (that you'd be able to mention)?
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(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday October 06 2017, @12:24PM (2 children)
I got the panels and cabling for them off of EBay on an as-needed basis, and I had the most of the components for the power conversion and so forth here already. I picked up the ultracaps surplus. Lots of that on EBay as well. I built all the mounts and other physical infrastructure (in fact, I built the entire interior structure of our home... it's an old church, and when we bought it it was basically a very large, empty cube. As a result it's more than a little bit... eclectic. :) I do all the structural stuff, and my sweetheart does the finish work.)
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 06 2017, @02:43PM (1 child)
That's awesome. Have you thought about adding wind turbines to the mix? Where my family is, not too far from you, the wind always blows; so I've wondered if it would be worthwhile for a person to throw a turbine up on a mast and win that way. I've read a lot about residential wind turbines with their different designs, but they never seen to net out to a positive ROI except in places like yours.
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(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday October 07 2017, @09:00PM
I've thought about it, but I'm not all that fond of propellers on poles. :)