Angst mounts over Germany’s green transition (www.economist.com)

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Meeting its targets looks hard

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[-] letmesleep@feddit.de 25 points 9 months ago

that making the remainder clean would mean covering some 2% of Germany’s surface, as much as its entire transport network, in wind and solar farms.

And that's supposed to be a problem? Wind farms don't really cover the space they need, you can farm under them without any issues and I just need to look out of the windows that there is a lot of roofs left that can take up solar panels.

[-] Ophioparma@feddit.de 14 points 9 months ago

You can even put solar panels over farm land, as long as your crop is shade resistant. It also has the additional effect that it reduces temperature extrema while maintaining average temperature over one day.

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