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It could be free and still would be vanity because you still need that base-load, for evenings, night, and cloudy days. But solar isn't free. Panels are high-te
by macspoofing 6y ago
It could be free and still would be vanity because you still need that base-load, for evenings, night, and cloudy days. But solar isn't free. Panels are high-tech devices that require destructive mining for exotic minerals, in addition to massive land-use. Climate change isn't the only problem we have. There's also environmental collapse.
>Anywhere near the equator the technology is going to totally replace all other generation within 20-30 years
20 years away in perpetuity..just like cold fusion.
- pfdietz 6y ago> because you still need that base-load, for evenings, night, and cloudy days. If you are claiming that one needs base load power plants, ones that operate at very high capacity factor, that's wrong. A combination of intermittent power plants, and dispatchable power plants (including possibly storage) to fill in the gaps, would work just fine. There is no need for a steady demand to be supplied by power plants individually producing steady output. Base load supply can be synthesized from non-base load components. > 20 years away in perpetuity..just like cold fusion. Solar is already being installed at the many GW scale. Equating that to cold fusion is the height of dishonesty.