Y2Kyoto: Schadenfryin’

14 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: Schadenfryin’”

1. I’m looking forward to the upcoming winter in Europe. Cold currently kills far more people than heat.

   But the gang green media just focus on deaths from heat (then go off and vacation in hot places when Europe gets cold).

   1. gang green is a nice play on words joe-worth repeating often. Well done.

2. Europe, not enough electricity?

   Turn off all air conditioning. It’s using electricity and heating up your cities.

   1. Not really a problem for Europe, they avoid aircon as if it’s COVID. I’m saddest for how it impacts artworks in European museums than people… the people can make a choice, but fine art is without agency.

   2. What Air Conditioning….??
      non Existant in 99.9% of the EU

      Why do ya think the women don’t shave their armpits..?

3. You know what doesn’t reduce output in high temperatures? Coal and gas fired generating stations. So we need to get rid of those.

   1. Solar buckles every night h

4. You’d have to have a heart of crystalline silicon not to laugh.

   1. Hahahaha ha ha … yeah, I must have one of those.

      And why is this the FIRST TIME I’ve ever heard of this incongruous little tidbit about solar panels? Never ONCE did any solar advocate (or CA Energy Public Utility … or the highly leftist politicized PUC … mention this fact when forcing ratepayers to fund countless solar “farms” throughout the blazing hot Central Valley and CA deserts. Never once. In fact, just the opposite story is told … about how sunny and hot CA is the ideal environment for solar panels.

      Oh … and nothing negative is EVER reported about solar energy … not dust accumulating on the panels … not the chemical degradation of the panels … NOTHING. Omitting drawbacks is a LIE and PROPAGANDA

5. Heat is the enemy of all solid-state electronics. Engineers spend inordinate amounts of time and effort figuring out ways to keep electronic devices from overheating, which is why so many electronic products are festooned with heat sinks, heat transfer pipes, ventilation holes/slots and/or fans.

   I can’t believe no one thought about this particular problem before.

   1. XBox 360: Hold my beer

6. I assume that the write of the article is a festering moron, given that they selected a photograph of a “floating solar farm” to go with their article bemoaning that solar panels work the best at 25C, and if they heat up too much, their output is reduced (and of course the issues with the heat cooling cycling that occurs, and isn’t mentioned).

   Of course, if the solar panels are floating on a giant heat sink, it’s less of an issue…

7. // Over the weekend, Germany broke the country’s record for solar power output,
   with even higher levels of electricity generation expected this week as the heatwave rages.
   But if temperatures remain elevated for long, it might actually risk slowing down solar energy’s output. //

   “might actually risk slowing”
   The headline presents this as a failure, but the article says output is a new record.

   How about “really actually slowing” – UK airport runways have had melting episodes, rails overheating have meant slow or no speeds

   From one of the links:
   // An important note to keep in mind about temperature coefficients is that if a panel is operating in temperatures lower than 25 °C, the temperature coefficient will actually be positive, and your solar panels will increase in efficiency. This means that the best conditions for optimal solar production are cold, sunny days, which in turn means you don’t have to live in a warm climate to benefit from solar power. //

   Sounds like Saskatchewan is ideal.

8. …so…solar panels don’t function well if there’s too much sunlight…and they don’t function well if there’s not enough sunlight…why does it sound like they are a perfect response to the whole climate-change panic, where hotter summers and colder winters are both evidence of how humans are ruining the planet?