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Re:When will the Netherlands disappear? by perfunctory on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:36AM (#21825877)
> Solar panels ... need to be changed each 20-30 years

How does this maintenance cost compare to the operating cost of a coal plant where coal has to be delivered non-stop?

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Re:When will the Netherlands disappear? by edhelas on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:20AM (#21826384)
Regarding the drop of price of solar panel I don't think that it's not that uninteresting to invest in it. I'm all in to invest into renewable energy but I wanted to point out the hidden costs of deploying such technologies.

But overall, if it's about CO² emission we want to reduce, I think it's way more efficient to invest into house/buildings isolation, heat pump and save 20 or more % of energy better than trying to invest massively into renewable energy that will gives non-controlled productivity.

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