Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle...
by keanzu on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:33PM
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Noor II CSP is a 600GWh solar plant which is 2.6 square miles or ~1700 football fields. That's space permanently lost if the powerplant is run forever. A nuclear waste dump is tiny in comparison. Land use of solar is gigantic.
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Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle...
by jussij on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:35PM
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> That's space permanently lost if the powerplant is run forever.
Many Australian farmers who lease their land to electricity companies for use as solar farms run sheep on those same solar farms.
Since the solar panels track the sun, grass grows under them and sheep being small enough to fit under the panels are perfect at keeping that grass under control.
So the farmer actually gets two incomes from the one field.
Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle...
by lovemenot on Sunday November 10, 2019 @02:31AM
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>> Since the solar panels track the sun
Really? Such tracking systems do exist, but outside of CSP they are generally not economic. I would be surprised if many PV solar plants in Australia use tracking motors.
Not to say grass won't grow under static panels. I have no idea about that.
Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle...
by chess_buster on Sunday November 10, 2019 @04:28AM
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Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle...
by llukas on Sunday November 10, 2019 @02:50AM
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Open pit brown coal mining destroys bigger areas in irreversible manner. Solar plant at least doesn't exhaust.
Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle...
by therealdrag0 on Sunday November 10, 2019 @01:29PM
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I think everyone here wants to move away from fossil fuels. The discussion is bout what to move to next.