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Land is cheap in the desert, there's often only a small town or two in the vicinity to deal with as far as limitations on directions you can build infra in, and
by dydgrbffisysg 4y ago
Land is cheap in the desert, there's often only a small town or two in the vicinity to deal with as far as limitations on directions you can build infra in, and no one moved to the desert for the view (Yes yes, someone's going to chime in that they did but in the real world it's the people moving close to the sea who are doing it for the view typically). So even if panels wear out faster in the desert there's a lot of appealing factors still.
- ncmncm 4y agoIn the desert, you typically have to build expensive transmission lines out to the site to get the power to where you actually want it. So, (1) you have to acquire single-use land, (2) the panels produce half as much power as they could because of heat and dust, (4) the panels' life is curtailed by the high temperature, and (4) you have to build a long transmission line back to someplace populated. There is no question but that panels in the desert can work. But it is a poor use of a panel that could produce much more power, more cheaply, longer.
- dydgrbffisysg 4y ago