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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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[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 0 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

The argument here isn't that solar won't help in the future, it's that people are literally dying because they don't have oil right now.

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