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Re:Prevented mortality from historical and projected nuclear... by stephenr on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @02:13PM (#20043502)
If you want to go build a house out there, it’s hardly rocket science to put the panels on top of it.
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Re:Prevented mortality from historical and projected nuclear... by bargl on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @04:44PM (#20045235)
Even rocket scientist have fairly bad foresight, see space debris as an example.

The reason these plants are reasonably cheap is that there are rows and rows of uniformly hooked up and distributed easy to access solar panels.

What you're suggesting is best accomplished by a government subsidy on solar panels. But then individuals own them and we won't have a way to recycle them when they all go bad in 30 years.

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