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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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