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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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