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> ... approximately 240,0000 homes. > ... > A 300W-solar power farm would require 1.5 million solar panels and cost approximately $300 million. ... watt??
by st_goliath 4y ago
> ... approximately 240,0000 homes.
> ...
> A 300W-solar power farm would require 1.5 million solar panels and cost approximately $300 million.
... watt??
- Neil44 4y agoYeah those numbers don't make sense, 300W should fit on a van but wouldn't power very much. Wonder how much sunshine they get up there.
- Tepix 4y agoMust be 300 MW just like the nuclear reactor.
- tonyarkles 4y agoThe thing to keep in mind about that number and how small it seems... the entire province of Saskatchewan only has 1.17M people, about half of us are concentrated across two major cities (~600k people) and the rest are very sparsely distributed throughout the rest of the huge land mass. Overall, the 2016 census listed 432,620 private households through the province, so one of these reactors is providing half of our residential power. It's a huge win for us, since our base load is currently coal...