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Solar often produces much less power than the sticker because it doesn’t some at night (among other reasons). Someone else in the thread noted that solar effici
by vlovich123 3y ago
Solar often produces much less power than the sticker because it doesn’t some at night (among other reasons). Someone else in the thread noted that solar efficiency is 20-30% of the installed capacity compared with 92% for nuclear (and solar costs always ignore storage which is a massive cost that would make the numbers waaay worse and is otherwise borne by installing nuclear/fossil fuels/hydro).
- philipkglass 3y agoThe numbers I posted already accounted for capacity factor differences, because they were generated energy output (gigawatt hours) rather than peak capacity (gigawatts).