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Meanwhile, a report from Scottish Renewables suggests that onshore wind farms could compete subsidy-free in the UK, as long as they were allowed to take part in the country's competitive auction process. (Known as contracts for difference, or CfD, the competitive auction process does not currently include onshore wind.)
Finally, while the loss of incentives and tax credits might have less impact than it once did—thanks to ongoing cost reduction and technological improvement—we are right to be concerned that political obstructionists can still do a lot of damage to the future of renewables. (The exclusion of wind from the aforementioned CfD process in the UK is one example.) But here too, there are signs of progress—because oil giant Shell is lobbying for the Dutch government to quadruple its offshore wind target for 2030 to an installed capacity of a whopping 20 gigawatts (GW). As Shell joins the likes of Statoil—which recently quit tar sands in favor of offshore wind—the shift of political and lobbying power starts to shift.
More signs that the pivot point in the energy economy is upon us.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:33PM (2 children)
I call bull-shit on moonlight killing somebody. Though 20mA at 400V is only 8W.
Electricity From Moonlight (Cody's Lab -- 5:01) [youtube.com]
Can moon light produce electricity from solar panels at night? Can moon light generate the electron-hole pair in a solar cell? [quora.com]
So like the story of the guy killing himself with a multimeter (measuring internal resistance), it is in the realm of physical possibility, but you would have to work at it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @06:09AM
> I call bull-shit on moonlight killing somebody.
Look who you are replying too.
The guy's entire world is bullshit.
I'm VLM probably thinks he himself died from moonlight electrocution.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Sunday April 23 2017, @01:13PM
Here's experimental results from your link of enough current to stop a heart (A LED is enough current to stop a heart, under perfectly non-ideal conditions)
Phil Hirsch
Written Apr 25, 2016
I have tried it, and the answer is yes. Not much electricity to be sure, but a solar panel that's rated at 50 watts produced enough current to light up a red LED. I didn't measure the current and I don't know how many LED's I could have connected -- I only tried with a single LED, just to see if there was any current at all -- but the answer is definitely yes.
That dude used a 50 watt panel, I'm talking about doing maintenance on arrays of, say, 4x5=20 100 watt panels, so 2 KW vs 50 watts.
I suspect an interesting contaminant is urban skyglow, perhaps streetlamps.