Re: Help The Planet Go Solar No Risk


Bob Kolker wrote:

Or drill a hole in the Mohorovic discontinuity and get heat from the
Earth's interior. The folks in Rejkjavic Iceland are doing quite nicely
with geothermally generated electricity and not a solar panel in sight.
Well, who would want a solar panel in iceland?

Plenty of people are using solar panels, summer houses that do not have
electricity grids in the vicinty among others and a number of sensors
and transmitters etc. are solar powered, keeps them independent of the
grid.
(The shortest day here is over 5 hours long, including twilight and the
longest reach 24 hour length, giving Iceland a higher number of
daylight hours than you get at the equator)

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