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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by throwaway894345 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:02PM (#25781682)
Ah, interesting. So are these PV workers in crazy high demand then? I feel like I haven't heard about the kind of wild growth in the PV industry that one would expect from such a significant endeavor?
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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by ben_w on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:18PM (#25781908)
Growth has been close to exponential since 1992, with an average doubling period of 2.2 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics

(Someone should update the “Grid parity for solar PV around the world”, that map was last edited in 2015)

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