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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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[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It is naturally a lot harder to blockade the sun than ocean ports. This perfectly illustrates how solar power grants energy independence at almost any level.

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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org [S] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Renewable and especially solar tech will change fundamentally how power is generated and distributed - in every sense.

And this is why we see this fossil endgame.

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[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

Individual generators predate our electrical grid. Almost a sort of cycle to it.

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