goldstar
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- Location
- New Jersey
- Occupation
- Electrical Contractor
Generally speaking, I usually don't post in this section of the forum because I do not do any solar installations (by choice). However, I recently returned from a cruise to port cities in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium and Norway. I was so impressed with the solar and wind farms that I saw and I would like to share some photos.
This first one was of a solar and wind farm while on a 2 hour train ride to Berlin. I saw a mega-watt solar farm that had 50 rows of solar panels with at least 100 panels in each row. Then looking behind in the 2nd photo I saw a wind farm with at least 50 wind turbines (before I lost count) and I thought "Wow, what an enormous feat of engineering. After traveling about 2-3 miles down the track we came upon another similar installation that was at least the same if not bigger than the first. All in all we passed at least 6 of these installations before we finally got to Berlin.
I know Germany has both fuel and power problems due to obvious current events. I asked our guide about these problems and he mentioned that gas prices are about $10.00/gallon (Euros are about the same value). His home is heated by oil and he is currently paying almost $4000 to fill his tank.
After leaving the port of Hamburg on the way to Oslo, Sweden (and BTW, the inhabitants of Hamburg, Germany are considered Hamburgers - no pun intended, but that's not where the sandwich was invented). We passed several wind farms out in the North Sea, miles away from any land areas (see photo # 3). I couldn't imagine how they got the harvested power back to land.
Thereafter, almost every port we pulled into had massive wind farms like this one in Copenhagen, Denmark
Due to high gas prices, bicycles are the most common form of travel for the inhabitants. This is a photo of bicycle racks outside one of the hotels.
Hope you enjoyed the photos
This first one was of a solar and wind farm while on a 2 hour train ride to Berlin. I saw a mega-watt solar farm that had 50 rows of solar panels with at least 100 panels in each row. Then looking behind in the 2nd photo I saw a wind farm with at least 50 wind turbines (before I lost count) and I thought "Wow, what an enormous feat of engineering. After traveling about 2-3 miles down the track we came upon another similar installation that was at least the same if not bigger than the first. All in all we passed at least 6 of these installations before we finally got to Berlin.
I know Germany has both fuel and power problems due to obvious current events. I asked our guide about these problems and he mentioned that gas prices are about $10.00/gallon (Euros are about the same value). His home is heated by oil and he is currently paying almost $4000 to fill his tank.
After leaving the port of Hamburg on the way to Oslo, Sweden (and BTW, the inhabitants of Hamburg, Germany are considered Hamburgers - no pun intended, but that's not where the sandwich was invented). We passed several wind farms out in the North Sea, miles away from any land areas (see photo # 3). I couldn't imagine how they got the harvested power back to land.
Thereafter, almost every port we pulled into had massive wind farms like this one in Copenhagen, Denmark
Due to high gas prices, bicycles are the most common form of travel for the inhabitants. This is a photo of bicycle racks outside one of the hotels.
Hope you enjoyed the photos