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China is building 75 solar parks in Cuba, and the island’s power crisis is becoming an infrastructure experiment (www.vozpopuli.com)
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Keeping the power plants running so babies don't die is not feeding an addiction wtf.

China has tankers with oil, this is an emergency, building solar is great long term, but it doesn't matter to the patients on ventilators and the farmers who's tractors have no fuel.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Keeping the power plants running so babies don’t die is not feeding an addiction wtf.

    What... what do you think the solar panels are going to do?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    They will decrease the severity of the crisis, but as the article says, theres not enough, they take time to come online, and upgrading Cuba's grid and storage will take even longer, and it still doesn't help processes that need oil like farming and concrete production.

    Cuba needs oil now.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    doesn't help processes that need oil like farming and concrete production.

    If they can reduce oil use in power generation, it should help by reducing the overall amounts of oil they need to procure

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