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Solar panals also use their land area much less invasivly. You can stick them on the roofs of building which would otherwise be unused space. Coal power plants
by gizmo686 12y ago
Solar panals also use their land area much less invasivly. You can stick them on the roofs of building which would otherwise be unused space. Coal power plants do not share space nearly as well. Of course, coal mining may actually make more usable space but I would prefer to keep such space in its natural state until we actually want to use it.
- dredmorbius 12y agoRight. That's a concern for land use which I address in another follow-up on this thread. What I'm focusing on though are the costs of plant capital involved in energy production, and the relative productivity of that capital. Coal plants approach 500x the energy intensity of solar power.