A Bolha das Renováveis

Há uma central solar no Alentejo, agora há uns interessados em construir a maior central solar do mundo...
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Interesting to read this in WSJ, para onde quer que nos viremos só encontramos rentistas. Louçã tem muita razão quando fala dos empresários encostados ao poder e sempre de mão estendida:
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"Spain's Solar-Power Collapse Dims Subsidy Model"
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"Wind energy was a cheaper renewable option than solar, so the Spanish government sought to make solar power more attractive by increasing subsidies, just as other countries, particularly Germany, were scaling back support.

As a result, Spain's solar capacity last year increased to 3,342 megawatts from 695 megawatts, the size of a coal plant, a year earlier. Government subsidies for solar power jumped to €1.1 billion ($1.6 billion) in 2008 from €214 million in 2007.

Solar power "was a financial product, not an energy solution," says Ignacio Sánchez Galán, chairman of Iberdrola, the world's biggest renewable-energy company. Iberdrola has largely shunned solar because wind power is cheaper and requires less land."
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ADENDA: Este artigo do WSJ fez.me recordar este outro da Harper's Magazine de Fevereiro de 2008 que já previa a bolha das renováveis.