A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on the ground

Re:A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on... by guerrilla on Friday December 09, 2022 @05:54PM (#33927519)

> If solar panels are cheaper than the mounting hardware (wow)

I'm surprised this surprises people... Every electronics hobbyist knows that electronics are cheap as dirt while any kind of box, mount, rail or whatever is BY REALLY FAR the most expensive part of a project, even when buying massivly mass produced cheap Chinese junk.

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Re:A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on... by whatshisface on Friday December 09, 2022 @05:56PM (#33927537)

The electronics you're talking about are rice grain sized little things, while the solar panels are big sheets of silicon inside of glass, etc.

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Re:A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on... by imtringued on Saturday December 10, 2022 @05:15AM (#33931430)

Those grain sized things have pretty high packaging costs in relation to what you are actually buying.

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Re:A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on... by guerrilla on Friday December 09, 2022 @06:32PM (#33927924)

Economies of scale make that irrelevant.

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Re:A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on... by DoesntMatter22 on Friday December 09, 2022 @06:17PM (#33927779)

You are surprised that this surprised people because electronic hobbyists know this? Most people are not electronic hobbyists so this should probably not surprise you

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Re:A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on... by guerrilla on Friday December 09, 2022 @06:31PM (#33927910)

I just find it interesting, the difference different perspectives can make, especially on a website where people are often bikeshedding things they have no experience with.

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