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Other than nuclear, what options do these countries have to avoid their dependency? I'm curious since solar is not an option I'm winter.
by elforce002 4y ago
Other than nuclear, what options do these countries have to avoid their dependency? I'm curious since solar is not an option I'm winter.
- taylodl 4y agoWhat makes you think solar isn't an option in winter? Solar panels get more efficient as the temperature drops. The amount of sunlight you receive is diminished by shorter days, but you can calculate that and compensate. It's similar to how we compensate for nighttime. Or were you thinking of compensating for the BTUs consumed in winter to heat homes? Even in that case today's heat pumps are dramatically more efficient than they were 30 years ago and they were already more efficient than gas furnaces, even then. There's a lot that can be done to dramatically reduce the amount of energy required to heat homes to the level we're heating them today.