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The power density of solar PV is high enough to turn the densest city in the U.S. into an exporter of electricity.
Build it in Nevada and run wire to connect to the grid.
For commercially viable wind energy, sustained wind speeds of around 9 mph (or 4 meters per second) are typically needed. In the Florida Panhandle, average annual wind speeds are often below this threshold (e.g., Pensacola and Apalachicola typically range from 7.8 to 8.9 mph).
Yeah, we're higher than that. 7-8mph is the floor generally even at night.
heat pumps are only just getting started and will save oodles of energy for space and water heating and even clothes drying
Covering a single flat parking lot with a huge array of panels is a hell of a lot more sensible than dozens of homeowners each individually putting small arrays on their sloped roofs.
SunnyvaleCA says
Covering a single flat parking lot with a huge array of panels is a hell of a lot more sensible than dozens of homeowners each individually putting small arrays on their sloped roofs.
Why? No transmission line loss with the roof solar.
Seems like a regression to have each home handle its own electricity independently. Are we going back 200 years and having each home supply its own food too?
Have you seen the hassle involved with getting permits and whatnot for each individual house?
Hail destroys thousands of acres of eyesores
https://x.com/DallasTexasTV/status/1772799624941568261
Bd6r says
Hail destroys thousands of acres of eyesores
https://x.com/DallasTexasTV/status/1772799624941568261
Another reason to limit solar panels to urban areas like parking lots and to deserts.
Deserts get very little hail, but farmland gets quite a bit.
I drove by this disaster a while ago, it looks apocalyptic. I do not think those can be recycled, they will just bury it in landfills and have cadmium telluride and lead leach from it in an environmentally friendly fashion.
They cut off all trees when building solar farms, even hundreds of years old oaks. Very green indeed. The retards who allow devastation of their inherited family farms get paid something like 600 per acre per year for this and it is 20-30 year contracts. Often contracts do not have clause for panel removal at the end of land lease. Neighbors are usually pissed off since land next to them is dead and may become toxic in future. Hopefully all subsidies are removed so we do not have to suffer this.
Each time, for me, the problem seems that I just don't use enough solar to get the economies of scale to amortize the fixed costs. I run about 8 kWh / day with most of it after the sun goes down.
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I did the math of Tesla solar panels. Cost is $17.4K after tax incentives. It would cover my monthly electricity bill of $230/mo on average. Add in a powerwall will increase the cost by $8k. Without the powerwall, it’s about 15% ROI. What am I missing?