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Re:Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think by kaydub on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:43AM (#27353079)
Where are you finding that an acre of solar will generate 350 Mwh of power?

My local solar power plant is nowhere near that kind of output.

http://newsroom.fpl.com/2019-03-28-FPL-announces-plan-to-bui...

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Re:Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think by helloguillecl on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:57AM (#27353703)
"When it comes to solar energy per acre, a photovoltaic solar plant which on average produces 1 GWh per year, will require around 2.8 acres of land. Therefore, we can say that for every acre, the plant produces an average of 0.357 GWh or 357 MWh of energy per year." [1]

[1] https://greencoast.org/solar-farm-land-requirements/

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Re:Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think by HPsquared on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:54AM (#27353184)
Compare "megawatt-hours generated per year" to "megawatts of installed capacity". Very different measurements.
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Re:Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think by rfrey on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @09:20AM (#27353965)
The linked article says 900 MWh from a 40 acre installation.
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Re:Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think by HPsquared on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @07:16AM (#27367313)
That's storage capacity, not annual generation. Again note the units: MWh, compared to MWh/year.
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Re:Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think by helloguillecl on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @09:40AM (#27354283)
...of a storage unit.
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