The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months

Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by jackcosgrove on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @03:30PM (#11623512)

I would propose a global power grid as a solution to this problem, on which the sun would never set. The only problem is that earth is not set up well for this: the Sahara would be the solar workhorse of the planet, and the consumer of all this power would be Hawaii.

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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by flo-g on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @05:41PM (#11624463)

What if the grid connects (residential and commercial) across time zones, one generating for the next with no need of storage devices?

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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by teraflop on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @05:53PM (#11624544)

Maybe if we had room-temperature superconductors. For now, transporting huge amounts of electric power across many thousands of miles is very, very inefficient.

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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by g8oz on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @07:16PM (#11624989)

HVDC lines work very well even if they are quite expensive.

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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by 205guy on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @04:07AM (#11626904)

Paging Buckminster Fuller.

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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by narag on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @04:10PM (#11623801)

Panels islands.

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