Israel’s Largest Solar Farm Now Online
Earlier today, the largest solar power plant in Israel was connected to the grid. The 50 kW rooftop solar farm, located in Qazrin, was installed by Israeli renewable energy company Solar IT.
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The Suntech solar-powered installation will produce 85,000 kWh of electricity. Suntech plans on installing an even larger installation in Southern Israel at at an unspecified date.
The new plant is part of Israel’s plan to produce 20 percent of its electricity using renewables by 2020. Considering the country’s abundant sunshine, I certainly hope that the majority of its renewable energy will be solar-based.
Photo Credit: NREL
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December 9th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
They built it using money parasitized off American taxpayers on land stolen off Palestinians.
December 10th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Take your racist bull crap to another site. Israel is the only successful, democratic country in that part of the world.
December 10th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Israel successful? Yes, it successfully collects welfare handouts off the US taxpayer.
Israel democratic? To quote Jimmy Carter, Israel is an apartheid state.
December 10th, 2008 at 2:35 am
Quoting Jimmy Carter=fail
December 10th, 2008 at 3:32 am
Oh so Israel is not an apartheid state? Jews and Arabs have equal rights do they?
Israel’s Marriage Law
Znet Magazine
August 2, 2003
Israel’s Parliament has passed a law preventing Palestinians who marry Israelis from living in Israel. The move was denounced by human rights organisations as racist, undemocratic and discriminatory.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=3989
What are you worried about? That Arabs will undermine the purity of your Jewish blood?
December 10th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Oh wait! You are worried about the purity of your Jewish blood being undermined, not only by Arabs but also by Falasha (black Jews):
Pent-up resentment in the Falasha community finally erupted in fury on Jan. 24, 1996, when it was learned that Falasha donations to Israel’s national blood bank were routinely thrown away. They were not pacified by the excuse given. Zvi Ben Yishai, chairman of the National AIDS Committee, said it was because the Falashas had fifty times the incidence of AIDS as other Israelis. He said the practice was “justified for the protection of the public.”
However, Yoram Lass, a member of parliament and former director general of the health ministry, described the policy as “racist and unfounded scientifically.” He said Americans had a much higher AIDS rate but Israel would never consider banning blood donations by American Jews.
The revelation horrified the Falashas, who now number around 50,000. Adiso Masala, head of the Organization of Ethiopian Immigrants, said: “This is pure racism. We are blood brothers with the Israelis but our blood is thrown in the garbage because we are black.”
http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0596/9605036.htm
December 10th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Well, talk about a conundrum. Who is lower on the Israeli apartheid scale? Blacks or Arabs?
In other words, what threatens the purity of Jewish blood the most? Intermarriage with Arabs or blood donations from blacks?
Steve, please help us solve this conundrum regarding Israel, the “successful democracy”.
December 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Your right Rob. I cant defend any of those things. Racism is not good. That is true. But there are still ignorant racists in America and I still love my country. You are a prime example. You are clearly a racist. There are atrocities going on everywhere in the world but you are only concerned about Israel throwing away blood. But I still love you brother.
December 10th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
@Steve, how does condemning racism make Rob a racist? You are playing the same old tired trump card that Zionists have been using for decades to get away with their boundless depravity: just call your accuser an anti-semite/racist and the problem goes away instantly…
You, however, defend racists – and that makes you a racist by implication.
Please explain how the fact that atrocities are practised elsewhere in the world makes the Zionist genocide visited upon the Palestinians acceptable?
PS. there is a difference between “your” and “you’re” – look it up or ask someone who knows English.
December 10th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
You guys have got it right. You should continue to breed hate. You must live over there and know everything that goes on. Am I right? You have seen this genocide first hand? You guys are right. I don’t know whats going on over there. I live in America. I see a lot of bombings the Palestinians are responsible for. Yet you don’t condemn that. “Boundless depravity” you must be some really hip art student huh? I get along with everyone, and it doesn’t even matter if there Jewish. Or black. Or white. I’m guessing you probably have trouble in that area.
December 10th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Again: there is a difference between speaking out against hatred and fomenting hatred. Or is this distinction too subtle for you?
The whole Israel/Zionist issue has become a festering sore and there is no way to touch it without exposing the sick mess. That is why zionist apologists like yourself can only resort to obfuscation, diversion and ad hominem attacks.
http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aad+hominem
Bombings by the Palestinians? What a joke. Their little home-made rockets are a symbolic gesture of defiance and do not do any real damage – or, at least, as nothing compared to the tremendous and indiscriminate retaliation from the IDF each time. Have you ever wondered how desperate and violated and outraged someone must be to strap a bomb to himself and detonate it as an attack?
I do not live in Palestine, no, but I do live in the country that invented the term apartheid and I can tell you that even the oppressed people in this country never got THAT mad. And I can also tell you that Jimmy Carter is being charitable in calling Israel an apartheid state. “Genocidal” or “Murderous” would be a far more fitting appellation. Israel is in direct and ongoing violation of dozens of UN resolutions and what they are doing to the Palestinians in Gaza violates several of the stipulations of the Geneva Convention on warfare.
Besides, the Palestinians are prisoners in their own country and can only be called “freedom fighters”. This is the land to which they have FAR more historic right than the zionist invaders. And no, don’t trot out the laughable myth of the Jewish diaspora returning “home”. This was never their home – as admitted by a few honest Jewish scholars like Arthur Koestler and, more recently, Prof Shlomo Sand:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/966952.html
I can’t help but laugh at zionist apologists living in America: your zionist masters have the noose around your neck and their diabolical claws are already tightening it while cackling at your naivety. They’ve just sucker-punched you with their trillion $ handouts of taxpayer money and you think you’re so cool for living in that Obamanation of a country? Wait until you realise the full implications of having for example a Secretary of State (Rahm Emmanuel) who’s a dual national citizen of another country (guess which one) – you have to wonder: just where do his loyalties lie?
But I think I’ll let you have the last word…like the wise man said: “Don’t argue with fools – they’ll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” Or, in the words of another wise one: “Don’t argue with a fool – others might not be able to tell the difference.”
PS. There is a difference between “there” and “they’re”. From your abominable grammar skills I deduce that you are a college student?
December 11th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Rob, Qazrin is in the Golan Heights, it IS part of Israel – never was, never will, never even claimed as Palestinian – so get your facts right. The Golan heights was conquered from Syria as a result of two wars both of which they started and both of which they lost, namely The Six Day War in 1967 and The Yom Kupur War of 1973. Please do take the time to study your history and facts.
But that aside, Israel is a leader in GreenTech technology and Solar energy. I do not see much of such activity in the Arab neighborhood. All I see is continued exploitation of fossil fuel.
December 12th, 2008 at 6:35 am
I don’t know what realise means. Maybe you mean realize? You do seem smart though. Just a little lost. You ask how desperate one has to be to blow him or herself up to kill others must be. Yet you believe the Israelis kill Palestinians without justification. So in your mind this is good versus evil. I would tend to agree with you on that point. Just be careful which side you end up on Sebastian. Radical Muslims would never consider such a compassionate person as yourself an infidel. How is my grammar looking buddy?
December 12th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Hey I know Americans think that America is the centre of the world (though you’d spell that center) but it is after all a British colony. English comes from England so perhaps you’d agree that the English people are the final authority on how to spell English words?
There are many differences between British English spelling and Americanish. Here’s a handy summary:
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/jones/differences.htm
It would appear that only a few of the original colonists could read and write – but unfortunately they couldn’t spell so well so those original spelling mistakes have become accepted as alternative spelling forms. So now the rest of the English-speaking world has to put up with realize instead of realise, color instead of colour, check instead of cheque and, worse, Americans who try and “correct” the rest of the world’s spelling! LOL
December 12th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
You must pronounce it differently too. Because it sure sounds like a Z at the end to me. Its English 2.0. Get with the times Mr. South Africa. By the way, America WAS an English colony. We had that whole Revolutionary War thing. You must have missed that in your “whites only” history class. I am glad I can get an old dog like yourself all riled up about this. Probably makes you feel young again.
December 14th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I thought commenting on this was a discussing a report about clean technology, not a political sandbox . . .