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by hef19898 982 days ago
You zave no idea about energy consumption along a supply chain, if you actually believe any of this.
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> You zave no idea about energy consumption along a supply chain, if you actually believe any of this.

This has nothing to to with supply chain, but with the fact that the Nederlands and Seattle aren't especially sunny places…

Then you shoupd tell the goverment in the Netherlands, they seem to believe they got 14% of their electricity from solar in 2022:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/the-netherlan...

Public subsidies work, I'm not doubting that.

USSR used to grow orange in Siberia too, that a state program can do it doesn't mean it's efficient in any way…

And yet, the solar panels I installed on my Seattle house a decade ago generated enough power to pay for themselves in six years. Solar works great here. Overcast skies are not a problem: solar panels don't care which direction the photons come from, and they work more efficiently at cooler temperatures.
> And yet, the solar panels I installed on my Seattle house a decade ago generated enough power to pay for themselves in six years.

That tells something about your local electricity market though, not about the energy or CO2 emission efficiency.