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Well one stumbling block is that we need to get thousands more people trained to service these energy storage facilities, let alone the windmills and solar pane
by Shivetya 12y ago
Well one stumbling block is that we need to get thousands more people trained to service these energy storage facilities, let alone the windmills and solar panels. There is already a shortage there as the skill set is not one side, part electrician, part mechanical engineer, and so on.
- nine_k 12y agoWith automation cutting more jobs in other industries, this could actually be beneficial. I don't think that training someone to be a serviceman on a solar plant takes as much pain as e.g. training a good programmer or a mechanical engineer.
- digikata 12y agoThere's no reason you couldn't bring up a infrastructure for technician level training to get those spots filled. I think you could just tap into the bureaucracy for existing job re-training efforts and it would work out fairly well.
- marze 12y agoFortunately, solar photovoltaic doesn't need servicing. Energy is big business, revenue will be there for servicing once market share is there.
- intrasight 12y agoSolar photovoltaic probably needs more servicing per kWh than any other method. If those panels aren't clean, you don't get the expected return.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoIf Tesla is building cells on a massive scale at the gigafactory, nothing stops them or a partner from building these into cargo-container utility scale storage systems and shipping them by rail to strategic utility interconnect points.