Israel's electric grid set to go solar

That seems pretty bizarre. Am I missing something?

Talk about killing two birds with one stone. OOps sorry funds are being diverted for retired army personnel and padded phony orthodox yeshivas and mekorot staff

This should have been done long ago. There are alot of buildings that can be either fully or mostly self supporting and in the case of business it can be profitable. You take something like an industrial park, thats not residential and people are interested in what the building looks like. You could cover that place in solar cells and it could probably generate all its own power which will suit the businesses who are located there and it will encourage businesses to set up in industrial parks where there are no electric bills to pay. Houses can provide most of their own energy because its only one family living there and a house has plenty of free roof space. Residential apartment blocks its not as easy but it could be possible to with just a limited number of solar cells to provide the power for the main areas like corridor lighting and elevators which would allow the Vard to lower their fees because there would not be as many expenses. A good start would be to equip the Knesset, the president & the PMs official residences with solar cells and lead by example. There are alot of options for generating powr avalible to Israel like being able to generate power from the motion of cars driving over special sensors on highway which are undergoing trials. Increase the number of windmills in the Golan, What there is right now is nothing more than token gesture to make it look like we are taking wind power seriously. Lets either buy or build ourselves a new nuclear power station to replace the one in Dimona. Whilst it does not concern Israel I would like to know wht passenger planes not equipped with solar cells on their wings or other parts of the body, it won't generate enough power to fly the plane but it could generate enough power to run the internal electrics which would save on fuel. IAI makes business jets maybe they could pioneer technology like that.

Piezoelectric cells convert mechanical distortion to DC electricity. By adding piezoelectric cells to the support legs of the photovoltaic panels, it would be possible to make use of the panels' wind resistance, probably at least doubling the energy produced. The same is true of other semiflexible structures such as plastic greenhouses, beach umbrellas, billboards, and even trees. Very simple and straightforward.

The photo shows a flat, stationary array of photovoltaic cells. The efficiency is only about 10% --that means that 90% of the solar energy is wasted. A much more efficient system (75%) is to the concept of Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) systems is to use low cost optics to increase the light incident onto the very high efficiency semiconductor solar cell material, thus reducing overall cost of the system while increasing energy output. Such a system is available from ZenithSolar - see their web site. Please not that I have no connection or commercial realtion whatsoever with this company. I'm just a fan of their good work.

i have good interested paleting and enggienering fiel

Put some of those politicians to good use. Lieberman's hot air alone could drive a whole array of wind turbines