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- No additional consumption of land These benefits are comparatively minuscule I think that benefit is significantly less minuscule than you make it out to b
by bobsomers 3y ago
- No additional consumption of land
These benefits are comparatively minuscule
I think that benefit is significantly less minuscule than you make it out to be. For rural installations, sure, but in high density areas the cost of land can be absolutely insane, and those high density areas tend to have high power demands just due to the density of humans that live there.
You can put all the ground mounted panels out in the countryside hundreds of miles away from the density, but high power transmission lines are also expensive and dangerous to maintain. Generating the power right where it's used completely eliminates a problem which has serious negative consequences like wildfires.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoAt some point, we're going to have to learn to eat the cost of HVDC transmission. You can move GWs of power with conductors of reasonable size and complexity (both underground and undersea), if you can get the right of way, and there are no technical limitations on length besides line loss. https://www.nationalgrid.com/sites/default/files/documents/13784-High%20Voltage%20Direct%20Current%20Electricity%20%E2%80%93%20technical%20information.pdf https://www.nationalgrid.com/sites/default/files/documents/1... https://europacable.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Introduction_to_HVDC_Underground_Cables_October_2011_.pdf https://europacable.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Introducti...