Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Idk, Finland has a much lower population density vs Germany. France is something like 1/2 the population density, but they also have >50 reactors, so surely Germany can find room for a few…

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  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Finland smaller tho.

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      • Finland: 338,145 km² and 5.6 million people
      • Germany: 357,596 km² and 82 million people

      Where do you want to put your hazardous waste again?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yup, but population density should be what matters, because that implies how much usable space there is for waste disposal.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Finland with it’s vast swathes of frozen tundra.

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  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We don’t have Frozen Tundras. This isn’t Alaska.

    And it’s actually stored south not north.

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And Sweden.

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