NEWMtnMama Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 Mexico looks to giant solar park in the desert to assuage carbon concerns https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/mexico-looks-giant-solar-park-desert-assuage-carbon-concerns-2023-02-02/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecoons Posted February 9, 2023 Report Share Posted February 9, 2023 There is no free lunch. https://phys.org/news/2016-11-solar-island-effect-large-scale-power.html https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/solar/solar-waste-a-looming-problem/ https://hbr.org/2021/06/the-dark-side-of-solar-power Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickS Posted February 9, 2023 Report Share Posted February 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Mainecoons said: There is no free lunch. https://phys.org/news/2016-11-solar-island-effect-large-scale-power.html https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/solar/solar-waste-a-looming-problem/ https://hbr.org/2021/06/the-dark-side-of-solar-power These are all good articles to understand the looming problems. IMO they will all be addressed and mostly resolved by "thinkers and doers". Outside of government! Would not the "poorer"... people and nations.... just love to have old-but-still-productive solar panels for a 'dime on the dollar'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecoons Posted February 10, 2023 Report Share Posted February 10, 2023 We sure love ours. Not knocking them, too often though the technically challenged view them as having no environmental and quite possibly climate impacts. In my view they are being over applied into very poor climate situations which makes compensating for said costs much slower if at all. I think if we were still living in sunny New Mexico we'd have them on our house by now and I would think they would do well in a place like Colorado, cold but with a lot of sun. Supposedly there is a technology in development that greatly improves their cloudy weather performance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickS Posted February 10, 2023 Report Share Posted February 10, 2023 On 2/10/2023 at 10:19 AM, Mainecoons said: I think if we were still living in sunny New Mexico we'd have them on our house by now and I would think they would do well in a place like Colorado, cold but with a lot of sun. Well, Colorado and basically the entire West.... excluding maybe the Pacific Northwest that is 'blessed' with dams and hydroelectric. And it is of course not just rooftop solar panels but large solar array fields engineered by or for electric producers, many of whom have a 2035 goal of being 85%(?) green. Of course that will include wind power. Wyoming, generally and historically a coal producing state, has seen the handwriting on the wall and has at least 2 very large array projects either in production or planned for this year. And as anyone who knows Wyoming knows that the wind blows there incessantly so there are many wind farms already and more coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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