So how's BP's "World's Largest Solar Plant" in Portugal working out?

[NNadir]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x30857">BP Solar to start building world's largest solar power plant in Portugal

Um, since 2005 when this "world's largest" solar power plant was announced, encouraging us all to bet the entire planet's atmosphere on this wonderful, superduper, marvelous technological breakthrough, vast wunderbar greatest thing ever, the atmosphere seems to have not been getting all that much healthier.

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=3&pid=26&aid=2&cid=&syid=1980&eyid=2008&unit=BCF#">There seems to be no interest in Portugal in phasing out dangerous fossil fuels or dangerous fossil fuel waste dumping in the atmosphere.

Speaking of the atmosphere, the "world's largest solar plant" seems not to have done doodly squat for the concentration of dangerous fossil fuel waste in the planetary atmosphere.



Have a nice evening. Think wishfully.

[Wilms]

1. .

http://www.pvresources.com/en/top50pv.php

[OnlinePoker]

2. I note that you've left out the fact that their coal consumption has dropped

by 1.5 million short tons (24.7%) and oil consumption has dropped 62641 barrels per day (19.9%) since 2004. You can see one of the primary causes of this drop is the production of wind energy which now supplies 1/3 of the electricity consumed in the country (14.7B kilowatthours consumed, 5.4B kilowatthours produced). Solar is a pipe dream unless you are willing to pay a higher cost for electricity, but it's obvious in Portugal's case that wind can make up a large portion of their generating capacity and has been able to do so in a short time.

[joshcryer]

3. Nice.