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Indeed. This reminds me of the "let's drive on top of our panels" stupidity. I suppose it could have practical applications in space colonization.
by Causality1 6y ago
Indeed. This reminds me of the "let's drive on top of our panels" stupidity. I suppose it could have practical applications in space colonization.
- epistasis 6y agoA lot of farmers are leasing their land to solar developers because it provides guaranteed, stable payments. Though "we" as a whole are not limited by land, individual economic actors are limited by how much land they own. Additionally, interconnection to the grid and node congestion are becoming larger percentages of the cost of solar, since they are roughly constant as the cost of solar plummets. Farms are somewhat ideal for medium size solar installations because they often have significant existing grid connections that are underutilized. Now that we have economical solar tech, the actual implementation of solar installs will be highly dependent on regulations, economic motivations of individual economic agents, the knowledge and intelligence of thistle agents, and combinations with existing infrastructure. (For example, we are seeing batteries being installed in old fossil fuel plants, so that we can reuse those super expensive grid connections.)