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Land requirement for Solar is negligible. Solar can be installed on lakes, reservoirs, canals, in deserts, on superfund sites, on farmland as agrivoltaics and o

Land requirement for Solar is negligible. Solar can be installed on lakes, reservoirs, canals, in deserts, on superfund sites, on farmland as agrivoltaics and on highways[1]. All these options are available in California. A small fraction of land used for ethanol (40M acres) is enough to supply all the electricity that US needs. But, I agree with you, Diablo Canyon is ready now, we should keep it online. We can't deploy new nuclear anyways, might as well keep the existing ones as long as possible. Besides, it might cost a few billions to decommission anyways. (1) California Is Ideal For Highway Solar: https://cleantechnica.com/2023/09/05/solar-along-nations-highways-can-avoid-nimby-concerns/ https://cleantechnica.com/2023/09/05/solar-along-nations-hig...

vlovich123 3y ago
> All these options are available in California. Except how easy is it to build a plant to connect panels installed there to feed back into the grid? It’s not just a matter of throwing some panels down. Don’t you need ancillary large equipment to manage all that power safely? > A small fraction of land used for ethanol (40M acres) is enough to supply all the electricity that US needs. Are you sure that’s including capacity factor because solar panels don’t run in ideal conditions at all times vs assuming the rated panel output is what you’re always getting? Also I feel like that’s missing the storage requirements which is frequently ignored and would take up some non trivial amount of space.