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> Are blizzards in the USA ever that big? At times of the year when there are blizzards, I seriously doubt the rest of solar installations in the US are going
by himinlomax 5y ago
> Are blizzards in the USA ever that big?
At times of the year when there are blizzards, I seriously doubt the rest of solar installations in the US are going to be running anywhere near capacity.
- ben_w 5y agoFirst: So? PV is so cheap overcapacity isn’t unreasonable. Second: My first visit to the USA, I saw people surfing in Asilomar on Christmas Day/Boxing Day and it remained warm and sunny throughout my stay in California, yet a few days into that trip New York was suffering a blizzard that Trump was trying to argue disproved global warming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_2014_North_American_cold_wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_2014_North_American_cold...
- himinlomax 5y ago> First: So? PV is so cheap overcapacity isn’t unreasonable. You're assuming they have an infinite lifespan. They don't.
- ben_w 5y agoNo I’m not. If I thought they had infinite lifespan I would be claiming solar was effectively free rather than, as I am actually claiming, just cheap.