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To: SatinDoll

Wow, a 50-megawatt plant.

That’s 50 MW nameplate.

The capacity factor for solar in Arizona, Nevada etc is about 19%. So it works out as a 10 MW plant.

Plus the electricity from it is going to be insanely expensive.


15 posted on 04/15/2014 4:34:06 AM PDT by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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To: agere_contra

Solar power for individual homes, when used smartly and in concert with other energy sources such as wood burning cook stoves and small wind towers for running pumps - all of this on a farm - seemed to work well. I have seen homes with solar panels that fed a complex of heating tubes in a sand bed under a house and a water heater. Because they were farmers and generally went to bed shortly after sunset and arose with the sun, they did not need huge amounts of electricity. That seemed to work well for them. I cannot see this in suburbia or a city.

Solar will not suffice for large-scale power production, for example, replacing a 1100-megawatt nuclear power plant.


22 posted on 04/15/2014 8:09:18 AM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE US OF US CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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