• @Rookwood@lemmy.world
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      339 months ago

      Solar is very expensive upfront cost and requires upgraded infrastructure. Cuba is poor and their infrastructure is old as fuck.

      • @DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
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        39 months ago

        The beauty of solar is one doesn’t always need infrastructure: little more than a few panels, some batteries, and an inverter.

    • @linearchaos@lemmy.world
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      79 months ago

      Cuba gets a hell of a lot of hurricanes. They probably have a hard time keeping a solar farm nailed down. Likely they have some of the same problems if they tried to do a lot of wind. Wave or tidal might not be a miserable choice, But that stuff’s pretty expensive, and they’re still going to have a lot of extreme weather to deal with.

      It probably wouldn’t hurt them to have a small nuclear reactor. It would have to be designed very carefully and have a lot of failsafes and redundancies as using diesel for emergency coolant backup is probably not a viable solution for them.

      • @DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
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        19 months ago

        If some roofs can withstand hurricanes, so can some solar panels. Presumably some wind turbines can withstand hurricane-force winds.