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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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[โ€“] isles 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think they might be taking issue primarily with the "reliability", the argument that solar is all well and good, but because generation isn't uniform, it can't fully replace fossil fuels. And I can see the argument for using nuclear for base-load and supplement with solar as it's available to use.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

i know what they're saying, but they're objectively wrong. Sure it's hard, it's not the most trivial thing to do. Harder than engineering, designing, and building a CCG turbine plant from the ground up? Highly doubt it, probably more expensive though.

Nuclear base load is an incredibly good strategy though, although nuclear isn't fossil fuels, so.