On December 25, 2017 at 12:46, Hi-FiGuy said...
Seriously, consider the source for that fluff piece.
Read the article that goes with your fluff.
[Link: good.is]If it really was that small and easy it would be done already.
Better start training the coal miners to fix solar panels.
Tree huggers giving up 12 million acres of land, not likely.
Then there is the follow the money/politics.
Consider what source? Is the data (size required) flawed?
I showed my calcs. Are they wrong as well?
Tree huggers not giving 12 million acres of land? Really?
You show me one tree hugger that would rather see coal, oil or lumber burning power plant than PVs.
As for land use -- have you ever been in the southwest? We (AZ, NV, UT, NM and parts of Tx) have literally thousands of acres of bare land. No trees, no real life to speak of.
Mojave deserts alone is 16 million acres. Not counting all the rooftops across the country (both commercial and residential).
I'm not saying it's a perfect solution. I'm saying it's the best one we have right now short of nuclear plants which are great, efficient, scaleable and affordable, but won't be implemented because of public hysteria.
Point is, you tried to slip one by us, saying that we don't have enough surface area for all the PVs.
I proved you wrong.
Move on and next time do a bit of homework before posting crap here.
