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Trump was the green energy champion we needed all along!

May it be an example to the rest of the world, fossil fuel dependency is a major and growing security liability.

Cubans shouldn't have to be this resilient and resourceful but god damn is it inspiring

Solar costs about 40c/watt installed at large scale and the grid on average uses 2 GW. Cuba gets on average 4.4 solar hours a day let's use 4. So that means you need to install 12 GW of capacity plus batteries. Let's make it 24gw so there's power on cloudy days. That means for solar it would cost roughly 10 billion. Battery storage somewhere around 20 gwh would cost another 4billion. So for 14 billion you could get almost the entire grid off oil and onto solar. For perspective at 100$/ barrel it would only be 3 -4 yrs of oil consumption. It sounds like China could easily make an investment like that especially since it would stimulate chinas economy since they would be making and selling the panels+batteries. I know I simplified a ton but with that much battery storage you could distribute them to maximize the grid. Effectively distributing power more evenly throughout the day. Also the grid is already used to blackouts brown outs so worst case you black some sections out of its been too many cloudy days in a row.

Thanks China, you’re far away and don’t have a lot of incentive to help little Cuba out, but we appreciate it!

I tried to find a legal way to invest in/donate to Cuba’s solar buildouts but couldn’t find one

Soon they'll all have better electric vehicles and public transit infrastructure than we Americans could ever dream of.

Next big brain move: "Our drones shall block out the sun!"

Great! I hope Iran will do this to the US too