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4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm (imgur.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by ikidd to c/technology
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Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

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[–] Duamerthrax 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Utility scale coal and NG plants seem like a worse idea.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Certainly, but PV isn't the thing to replace those.

[–] Duamerthrax 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you agree that Coal is worse then PV, then you agree that PV should replace Coal.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Sure, but I don't think that's effectively possible. For example, Germany has had to restart coal fired plants even though they were deploying PV like crazy. However, nuclear power actually can replace coal. Incidentally, the good Germans have been falling for fossil fuel interests and getting rid of their nuclear plants.