California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up

Re:California farmers are planting solar panels as water sup... by jseliger on Thursday August 01, 2019 @11:10PM (#20590438)

I would love to see laws preventing destruction of woods, or otherwise fertile land, especially when wind power seems to be the way to go around here.

Or we could just build nuclear: https://www.city-journal.org/atomic-power and solve many problems at once, using technology that already exists.

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Re:California farmers are planting solar panels as water sup... by m463 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @11:32PM (#20590509)

I found it fascinating to compare the energy found in different substances. [1]

For instance, gasoline is 34.2 MJ/L

A lithium-ion battery is 2.6 MJ/L

Meanwhile, Uranium is 1,539,842,000 MJ/L

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Table_of_energy...

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Re:California farmers are planting solar panels as water sup... by addicted on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:20AM (#20592129)

Except nuclear costs a lot more. L

For the same amount of money we’d get a lot more energy out of solar or wind. And no radioactive waste and proliferation worries as a bonus.

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