First duty of intelligence: the obvious

An article from MIT's Kevin Bullis has been quite reposted and mashed, I end up doing the same  ^_^.
The statement is the follow:

Siemens says it would make sense to build solar power plants in sunny countries in Europe rather than in cloudy ones. And wind turbines should be built in windy places.

These blindingly obvious suggestions run contrary to what’s actually happening. For example, a solar panel in Spain generates about twice as much electricity as the same-size solar panel in Germany

The following graph is a good representation of what happens and (by way of consequence) what could be done to optimize the use of current resources in Europe:

Spot on!