Re:'Like the Moon': Astronauts flock to Spanish isle to train
by ricardobayes on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @02:27AM
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No geothermals at all. Spain as a whole is very late on renewables, some early adopters are just picking up air-source heat pumps and solar panels are starting to become wide-spread. It didn't help that there was a prohibitive tax on solar panels dubbed the 'sun tax' here that ended recently.
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Re:'Like the Moon': Astronauts flock to Spanish isle to train
by L_226 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @03:46AM
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I think I heard about some solar power investment scheme in Spain, a decade or so ago, that got a bunch of retail investors burned. Is that right?
I believe it also killed the solar updraft tower [0] project that was going on in Manzanares [1].
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower#/media/Fil...
Re:'Like the Moon': Astronauts flock to Spanish isle to train
by Mordisquitos on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:03AM
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> No geothermals at all. Spain as a whole is very late on renewables
I'm being extremely nitpicky here, but geothermal energy is not technically "renewable" in the precise sense of the word. That's not to say that geothermal energy cannot be an excellent and environmentally friendly energy source. For contrast, hydroelectric power is renewable, but can easily be very environmentally damaging depending on its location.