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posted by chromas on Tuesday June 11 2019, @12:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-a-"bright"-idea! dept.

Yucatán, Mexico is adding a new solar energy production facility which can produce up to 18 megawatts of electricity, serving about 5.3% of the state's households. Additional facilities are on the way, with aims to produce a massive surplus within three or four years.

The San Ignacio solar plant, which covers 66 hectares[*] in the municipality of Progreso, was inaugurated Friday by Governor Mauricio Vila Dosal. The Chinese company Jinko Solar invested US $30 million to build the plant.

Energy generated by the plant will be consumed in Progreso and the state capital, Mérida.

[*] 66 hectares is just over 163 acres or just over 1/4 (i.e. 163/640) of a square mile.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @12:14AM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @12:14AM (#853983)

    If they are financially beholden to the Chinese?

    Giving up one master for another does not a free man make.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @12:40AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @12:40AM (#853992)

    Funny! Those were my first thoughts also. We already put the kabash on a big Chinese project in Cancun. We don't want them around. Their gangs will definitely take over if we let them in. We have to tell them their money is welcome, but they are not. They'll just be killing and eating our cats and dogs and spitting on the sidewalks. And they are more arrogant than the damn French! Believe it or not!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:05AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:05AM (#854128)

      The one thing they all had in common, save ones whose family came over pre-communism, is they avoid directly saying anything bad about the Chinese government, and in the case of a girlfriend's family were actively aversive to being around political figures, scares like they would be gunned down or abducted (they happened to live in a country where we were within 50 feet of the Prime Minister on a beach one day!) Security detail was a couple chips style bike cops with SMGs and chest hair. Looked very 80s.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday June 11 2019, @12:57AM (8 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday June 11 2019, @12:57AM (#854001)

    The Chinese company Jinko Solar invested US $30 million to build the plant.

    What's the problem here exactly? That's how capitalism works.

    Presumably Jinko Solar will charge the locals money to use the electricity, and at some point start making a profit. Or is that a bad thing now?

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 11 2019, @03:34AM (7 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 11 2019, @03:34AM (#854054) Journal

      That's how capitalism works.

      But, but... China. You know? Danger, there be communist investments!!!

      Just forget that Norway state [bloomberg.com] successfully manages/controls $1T (or "1.4 percent of global stocks, large holdings of bonds and properties across the globe") in the name and for the benefit of Norway citizens. We are not at war with Norway (yet).

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      • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday June 11 2019, @03:43AM (6 children)

        by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday June 11 2019, @03:43AM (#854056)

        Those Norwayites sound like communists.

        • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday June 11 2019, @04:43AM (3 children)

          by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday June 11 2019, @04:43AM (#854067) Homepage

          Communism only works with smaller populations of healthy, happy, educated Whites. For example, how Sweden was before...uh...you know.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:22AM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:22AM (#854077)

            Communism only works with smaller populations of healthy, happy, educated Whites.

            Failing at least "healthy", "happy" and "white", you'll never belong. Envy, perhaps?

            • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:59AM (1 child)

              by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:59AM (#854088) Homepage

              I'd envy the Mexicans and the Congolese if they had their shit together, but for a number of mysterious reasons they don't. And "Whitey caused all my problems" is not a good reason.

              • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday June 11 2019, @01:21PM

                by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 11 2019, @01:21PM (#854187) Journal

                I'd envy the Mexicans and the Congolese if they had their shit together

                I'll only say that the ocean separating them makes from bringing Mexican and Congolese shit together a very expensive logistic operation; I can understand the two countries' reluctance to engage in this endeavor, especially when all they could gain from it is limited to the envy of Ethanol-fueled.

                (grin)

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        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:17AM (1 child)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:17AM (#854075) Journal

          Those Norwayites sound like communists.

          Necessary conditions: one needs to know about them first, then listen to them.
          The first one is a hard condition for a certain geography [geocurrents.info]-impaired [wordpress.com] segments [atlasofprejudice.com] of this world's population**

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          **(the last one is a more comprehensive vista on prejudiced geography).

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          • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday June 11 2019, @08:42PM

            by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday June 11 2019, @08:42PM (#854364)

            Yeah, I was joking. Also, the world according to UKIP is awesome. I'm glad I don't live there though.