The new Cottbus Solar Park covers 3500 hectares or 35 square kilometers or 13.5 square miles – huge!! It holds 4.2 million bifacial solar panels generating 2.2 Gigawatts. That’s a lot! It’s on a former coal mine in Brandenburg. Germany has plans for 28 GW more solar. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0Jav6nMgpffLuSBDuT3MjQcLQ3bvYVMaPP7U4VTDuuoJ6neQaJhrcnLBwQeyJsPbUl&id=61577817790681&post_id=61577817790681_pfbid0Jav6nMgpffLuSBDuT3MjQcLQ3bvYVMaPP7U4VTDuuoJ6neQaJhrcnLBwQeyJsPbUl&mibextid=CDWPTG
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2026-05-08 Germany Proves Agrivoltaics Are A Win-win – They Do Not Take Away Farmland
“”The expansion of solar energy has always carried one tension with agricultural nations that no policy document resolved cleanly: solar farms require land and farmland is finite. Germany found a way to make that tension irrelevant by installing solar panels above active crop fields in an approach called agrivoltaics where the same land produces food
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2026-04-18 What The Old Microwave Telecomms Channels Were Like Before Digital
I occasionally think of what possible things might have been sent over this microwave radio. When I was in Germany in the army we had microwave telecomm links on the tops of hills to connect our hawk missile sites to our headquarters. We had the voice channels connected to our switchboard and if you were
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2026-03-18 Germany Discovers Huge Lithium Deposits – 43 Million Tons
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2025-11-03 Agrivoltaics In Farms In Germany
“In Germany, Farmers install solar panels above crops to simultaneously generate energy and grow food. This dual harvest approach enhances sustainability without reducing farmland.” https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0Za7xpmgcssX6pqe4upisQY9xVDH2zP6h7itFSXUHbLF27HaHq5dwZ8yXjdww7zYrl&id=100050516563145&post_id=100050516563145_pfbid0Za7xpmgcssX6pqe4upisQY9xVDH2zP6h7itFSXUHbLF27HaHq5dwZ8yXjdww7zYrl&mibextid=CDWPTG
2025-10-29 Trillion Dollar Lithium Deposits Discovered In Germany
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2025-08-18 Germany Agrivoltaics Growing Crops With Solar
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2025-06-10 This Theme Park In Germany Is An Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant
It was a fast breeder reactor. Tom Scott has an episode on YouTube about a nuclear power plant in Austria that was built but never started.
2024-04-26 Nuclear Fusion Insanity
This is a 35 minute YouTube video on nuclear fusion. It’s a narration but the graphics don’t match up with the narration. I give it a grade of C minus. Quote “”The ITER reactor is designed generate to 500 Megawatts of fusion power for at least 400 seconds, achieving a ten-fold gain in plasma heating
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2021-09-28 German Offshore Wind Farms; Recycling Blades
The narrator goes to the offshore wind turbine to show us a 6.2 MW wind turbine. The key takeaway is that these offshore wind turbines solve the wind turbine intermittency problem because it’s windy as hell out there 24 hours, 365 days a year. He said the transmission line to southern Germany was supposed to
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