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		mncolinlee on Nov 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: German solar and wind are triple the cost of Frenc... It's worth noting that Germany has less solar energy potential anywhere in their country than in any single state in the USA, including Alaska. Yet they had more solar deployed in watts than the entire USA for a long time.

therealdrag0 on Nov 10, 2019 [–]

Ya I was gonna 'complain' about solar being constrained by geography, but then I saw this map https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/solarwa/pages/93/attac...

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