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Power as electricity has an inherent high physical cost of transportation, you spend power to transport it. A solar panel is going to generate just as much powe
by yonaguska 8y ago
Power as electricity has an inherent high physical cost of transportation, you spend power to transport it. A solar panel is going to generate just as much power by itself as it would among a farm of solar panels, isolating for location and access to sunlight. I'm not sure how enforcing centralization in this case would be beneficial.
- realusername 8y agoJust the cost of installation, maintenance & the necessary batteries for solar make that cheaper in a farm with scale.
- sigstoat 8y agomaybe the panel does, but that doesn't much matter unless you're happy to make use of variable low voltage DC right there on the spot. it has to run through an inverter, and likely be stepped up, to go anywhere else. and both of those things will tend to be higher efficiency when you've got more panels in the same place.
- brianobush 8y agoMicro-inverters are getting quite cheap now, each of my 20 solar panels have one. Out comes 120 volts, but still variable amperage.