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If 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
by bufferoverflow 9y ago
If 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.