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Which part? 12 parking lots 657 kW nameplate capacity 1.23 GWh per year of energy production The 185,000 cubicles worth of CO2 emissions is likely based on
by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Which part?
12 parking lots
657 kW nameplate capacity
1.23 GWh per year of energy production
The 185,000 cubicles worth of CO2 emissions is likely based on average pollution per car, and average carbon intensity of the local grid.
- pingou 1y agoThe average emissions for a car is 4.6 tons of co2. The average carbon intensity of U.S. electricity generation is around 384 grams of co2 per kWh. 1230000 * 0.384 / 1000 = 472 tons. But 185000 cars emit 851000 tons so 500 tons is like a rounding error, unless I am mistaken.
- hinkley 1y agoEither it’s a full on hallucination or they intend the power to be used to charge electric vehicles. Which is a stretch because solar parking isn’t going to sell that many electric vehicles. It will sell some, but not that many more.
- Dylan16807 1y ago1.23GWh is enough to power a few hundred cars, not 185 thousand.
- _aavaa_ 1y agoYeah the longer I look at it the less their numbers make sense. I also did a double take, “surely it’s not 4.6 tonnes per year”. But it is. If that came out as a liquid rather than a gas, we’d have stopped burning fossil fuels by now.