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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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Yucatán Predicted to be Self-Sufficient in Renewable Energy in 3–4 Years
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(Score: 1, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday June 11 2019, @12:51AM (3 children)
That was their biggest biggest "renewable." And believe me, they had a lot of "renewing" to do when the Hurricanes came. Tremendous amounts of damage there. The wind completely ripped out the Solar Panels from their Solar Farms. And they had no electric for months because of that. Very bad situation and they could have avoided that one very easily. By going with Clean Coal or nuclear. Where it's very easy to store months worth of fuel right at the plant, right on the property. Last month I had the great honor of touring the new Sempra LNG, the Cameron LNG in Hackberry, Louisiana. Great place, great workers. That place is like a work of art -- a real monster. Very friendly people there and they're going to be sending the LNG, the Liquid Natural Gas all over the entire world. And they could send it, very easily to Mexico. Very close to Mexico. When they go over the ocean it's actually much closer than you'd might think. Very clean energy, American energy and it works in the wind, it works in the sun, it works in the dark and when there's no wind. It's 100% just like beautiful Clean Coal & nuclear. The Solar is a totally different story. Mexico is making a big mistake!!!
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday June 11 2019, @02:27AM
So sad that they chose Moderators that can't, or don't read. That don't know what the stories are about. And when they see my name, they "automatically" Down Mod without reading my Tweet. Puting, "Offtopic" on a Tweet that's 100% Ontopic. To try to silence me like they've silenced so many others -- XivLacuna, cocaine overdose, Aryanx277, Jondraper88 and so many more. The many who are silent because they've been silenced. I call them the Silent Majority. Who when they try to tweet, can't. They don't see their Tweet, they see "Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner." They say disabled, which I guess is a politically correct way to say crippled. In New York we call it Kneecapping. I've seen it many times and it's not great, believe me.
(Score: 4, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:30AM (1 child)
(cont) By the way, look what happened in Puerto Rico. Look at the Before and the After of that one. So many "panels" totally blown away. Flying through the air at incredible speeds. And if one of those "panels" hits you, probably you die. Or you're crippled -- I mean disabled -- very badly. Can we call them Death Panels? theweatherjunkies.com/single-post/2017/09/28/Puerto-Rican-Solar-Farms-Heavily-Damaged-By-Hurricane-Maria [theweatherjunkies.com]
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday June 11 2019, @06:03AM
Uh-oh, formerly sober Don discovered the liquor cabinet. Don't do it, Don, drinking booze makes God cry!