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    I tetti dell’UE potrebbero essere un’enorme fonte di energia solare, secondo uno studio

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    3. eucariota92 on

      It makes more sense than cutting forests or destroy farmland for that.

    4. Lost-Display1 on

      Guys, just so you know – pretty much any flat surface outside could a source of solar power. I know, incredible.

    6. Smitje on

      Sure if your government also keeps expanding your powergrid…

    10. Habitatti on

      Well yeah, I live in the cold darkland, and even here they’re very effective.

    12. Fluffy-Drop5750 on

      We need local storage and grid overhaul. MEGA, Make Europe Great Again.

    17. VicenteOlisipo on

      I mean, yes, but no. The issue isn’t whether there is alg of free area in rooftops, it’s whether it is cost effective to build and install panels in loads of different rooftops, in different orientations and sizes and models at different moments, comparing to using the same amount of resources to install panels in much fewer but much larger and more uniform places. And that is… Doubtful.

    18. ExpressGovernment420 on

      Yeah and? We have installed them on the house. For now we have yearly neto system, where we use energy we have produced before, when solar is off. That is fine and great.

      But, in few years, this system goes away and instead we are paid for what we produce. However, we produce during summer, when energy costs are low, but in winter we consume and they are insanely high.

      So the result is, we as solar panel owners will be losing a lot of money. Yet big solar farms and wind farms will be compensated by subsidies and consumers during off hours. Seems a bit unfair for small house owners.

    19. totallyclips on

      You really didn’t need a study to tell you that the best place for solar panels is the roof. No wonder people despair at the eu

    20. khassius on

      Yeah, but my neighbourhood’s grid won’t allow every houses to have solar panels otherwise there’s too much power going back to the grid and then the system doesn’t work anymore

    21. dattokyo on

      The biggest issue with solar power, is that the panels are buttfuck ugly, and take way too long to pay themselves off.

      I’m somewhat in the middle of looking to buy a house, and in Denmark, all the houses up for sale also come with an automated PDF on how to improve energy costs. Solar panels are almost always in the reports – and are estimated at taking roughly 20 years to earn themselves back. Bro, after 20 years, you’ll need to replace them!!

      Plus, as I said, hella ugly. There’s much nicer ones now, that basically look more like regular roof tiles, but they cost so much that they basically never earn themselves back before needing to be replaced.

      Solar is still, for most people, just not really worth it, especially not up north where we don’t get tons of sunshine. 20 years, bro, yikes.

    22. thallazar on

      Is this… news to Europe? Rooftop solar standard in countries like Aus/Canada/USA.

    23. giMekkI on

      And batteries are coming down in price allowing homeowners to use their own stored power, even help the grid. 

    24. Educational_Will1963 on

      where I live, we are forbidden to have solar panels

    26. Tman11S on

      They already are, to the point where China can easily cause a brown out by remotely turning off our solar panel transformers

    29. Changaco on

      Most of Europe is too cloudy and too far from the Equator for solar power to be truly competitive compared to most parts of the world. Don’t believe me? Look at the [Global Solar Atlas](https://globalsolaratlas.info/map).

      Of course that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t invest in solar power, just that it can’t make European electricity competitive.

    30. Vossky on

      Too bad there is a wild lack of regulation, in France I get scam phonecalls about solar panels almost on a daily basis. If I would want solar panels installed and just start googling it, most results are scams. A ton of people get scammed and I’ve seen countless news stories on this subject.

    31. blackburnduck on

      So glad to see our taxes funding such groundbreaking discoveries

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