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At least in Europe, building transmission lines is a much longer process than building solar. Partially because of the complexity of acquiring land from a large
by wongarsu 2y ago
At least in Europe, building transmission lines is a much longer process than building solar. Partially because of the complexity of acquiring land from a large number of owners, but more importantly because of NIMBYs that do everything to oppose new transmission lines that might disrupt the landscape. And some of the NIMBYs own the land you need to build the transmission line. Building a 1000km high capacity transmission line is a multi-decade project in this part of the world