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[Mik]

Get the Gas forget Solar....

[supporttheunderdog]

Get the Gas forget Solar....

Solar and wind etc have their place but we must accept the limitations they have.

[cyprusgrump]

We need to increase self-sufficiency. Buying imported goods and/or goods from foreign-owned shops is tantamount to high treason.

Importing fossil fuels should be limited as well. Our renewable energy sources must be fully exploited, and the RES industry must be state-supported and encouraged for further development.

I do not know of any island nation in the world who is self-sufficient, do you? Would be nice it that can be achieved but i think it is rather unrealistic.

Obviously not. We can never become completely self-sufficient, but we should exploit our full potential towards that direction.

Currently Cyprus is producing less solar power than Germany! Why? Because of lack of planning.

Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country

Or perhaps because Germany has approximately 35 times the land area of Cyprus...?

[cyprusgrump]

Get the Gas forget Solar....

Solar and wind etc have their place but we must accept the limitations they have.

Indeed...

The 42 turbines I can see from my house are currently stationary... Of course, five of those have been broken since it was windy last week...

And as it is overcast I doubt if the solar panels are producing much more energy than they did all night...

Lucky for imported fossil fuels eh?

[lucius]

We need to increase self-sufficiency. Buying imported goods and/or goods from foreign-owned shops is tantamount to high treason.

Importing fossil fuels should be limited as well. Our renewable energy sources must be fully exploited, and the RES industry must be state-supported and encouraged for further development.

I do not know of any island nation in the world who is self-sufficient, do you? Would be nice it that can be achieved but i think it is rather unrealistic.

Obviously not. We can never become completely self-sufficient, but we should exploit our full potential towards that direction.

Currently Cyprus is producing less solar power than Germany! Why? Because of lack of planning.

Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country

Or perhaps because Germany has approximately 35 times the land area of Cyprus...?

Yeah, but propably 3 times less sunshine . So in the end the factor is propably more like 10 times.

[cyprusgrump]

We need to increase self-sufficiency. Buying imported goods and/or goods from foreign-owned shops is tantamount to high treason.

Importing fossil fuels should be limited as well. Our renewable energy sources must be fully exploited, and the RES industry must be state-supported and encouraged for further development.

I do not know of any island nation in the world who is self-sufficient, do you? Would be nice it that can be achieved but i think it is rather unrealistic.

Obviously not. We can never become completely self-sufficient, but we should exploit our full potential towards that direction.

Currently Cyprus is producing less solar power than Germany! Why? Because of lack of planning.

Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country

Or perhaps because Germany has approximately 35 times the land area of Cyprus...?

Yeah, but propably 3 times less sunshine . So in the end the factor is propably more like 10 times.

Plus 80 times the population....

[kurupetos]

We need to increase self-sufficiency. Buying imported goods and/or goods from foreign-owned shops is tantamount to high treason.

Importing fossil fuels should be limited as well. Our renewable energy sources must be fully exploited, and the RES industry must be state-supported and encouraged for further development.

I do not know of any island nation in the world who is self-sufficient, do you? Would be nice it that can be achieved but i think it is rather unrealistic.

Obviously not. We can never become completely self-sufficient, but we should exploit our full potential towards that direction.

Currently Cyprus is producing less solar power than Germany! Why? Because of lack of planning.

Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country

Or perhaps because Germany has approximately 35 times the land area of Cyprus...?

Bollocks.

Total photovoltaic peak power capacity (MWp)

Germany: 24,875

Cyprus: 10 (10*35=350 )

24,875>>350

[kurupetos]

Plus 80 times the population....

The population is completely irrelevant.

[cyprusgrump]

Plus 80 times the population....

The population is completely irrelevant.

Perhaps it is because Cyprus is too poor to pay the generous subsidies that are required to make solar worthwhile then...?

A Friend of mine was going to make a substantial investment in solar but discovered the funds had all been spent on the (pointless) wind farms...

Whatever the reason, a substantial increase in solar capacity for Cyprus will only result in extra costs for the taxpayer... Which they can ill-afford in the current crisis...

[Mik]

Cobblers to the Renewable energy, get the Gas and convert the Oil burning Power Stations.