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If the limiting factor in manufacturing solar panels was power then it would be an exponential industry (manufacture 1 solar panel, use it's power to manufactur
by SahAssar 9y ago
If the limiting factor in manufacturing solar panels was power then it would be an exponential industry (manufacture 1 solar panel, use it's power to manufacture 2 and so on).
I'm pretty sure the limiting factor is the materials and the machinery involved.
- bufferoverflow 9y agoIf you can automate all the steps, it's all just the energy and the time. Though solar panels require quite a wide supply chain, it will take some time to fully automate.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoThis was what I was targeting. A fully automated solar harvesting manufacturing assembly. Energy and mass go in, out comes panels that are shipped on autonomous semi trucks to a nearby facility for automated install (automated utility scale install robotics already exist).
- wnkrshm 9y agoNot everything hinges on power, there is a lot of chemical processing involved in getting those raw materials and the raw materials to prices these materials and so forth. Like the production of sulfuric acid that we need for virtually everything.