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· Föderation EN Do 24.04.2025 20:21:21 @ives are you talking about a different Belgium to the one i am looking at because this one i could cover 90% in solar panels without a single person having to move Medien: 1 |
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Föderation EN Do 24.04.2025 20:25:25 @bovine3dom 20% of what you're seeing is forest, and another 20% is buildings. Unless you're going to use rooftops and cut down all trees, I don't think you'll reach 90%. |
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Föderation EN Do 24.04.2025 20:38:12 @ives yeah, fair enough, sorry. i could only cover 80% of it in solar panels without a single person having to move. i had underestimated just how dense Belgium is - it is about 20% populated as you said. I'm not keen on cutting down any forests so let's only cover 50% of Belgium in solar panels that's 15,000km² which would be about 1,500GW - double the current total world capacity of solar i really don't understand in what way you "don't have space" :) Medien: 1 |
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Föderation EN Do 24.04.2025 21:19:22 @bovine3dom @ives In most provinces of Belgium, the majority of the agricultural land goes livestock grazing, an utterly wasteful activity. It can be eliminated without any impact on food security (since meat and dairy are useless) or income (since it's all loss-making subsidised business). (But it doesn't even need to be, as you can let sheep graze around the solar panels.) The average livestock grazing farm is 40 ha. How many landowners do you need to convert to solar? |
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Föderation EN Do 24.04.2025 23:30:45 It seems to me that livestock grazing is not incompatible with solar panels. Medien: 1 |
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Föderation EN Fr 25.04.2025 00:26:49 @resuna @nemobis @bovine3dom @ives More solar panels and a little less livestock would be the ideal combination. The cows do however love the shade the solar panels provide. |
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Föderation EN Fr 25.04.2025 08:42:24 @bovine3dom It's not a matter of space. Belgium doesn't want any more solar capacity because our grid is shit, our grid operators are grifters, and people are going to have to pay to inject the excess production from their rooftop PV. |
