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11 years after a celebrated opening solar plant faces a bleak future
- toomuchtodo 1y agoPV solar got cheap very fast, obsoleting thermal solar faster than expected (as well as higher than expected operations and maintenance costs at this installation). https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/solar-panel-prices-have-fallen-by-around-20-every-time-global-capacity-doubled https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/solar-panel-prices-...
- timonoko 1y agoRemember seeing such plant in 1980 in Nevada. Train conductor pointed it out and joked about cooked birds too. Very strange they built a new one, just when 10 watt panel was reduced from $100 to $10.