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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
Solar and wind, as the technology is now just isn't viable on a large scale. They are setting up a 120 arcre 'solar farm' around here in the next couple of years but its only going to generate enough energy to power 1500 homes they estimate. It almost seems like a waste. Same with turbines, these huge ugly potentionally dangerous things all over the nations beautiful coastlines and other areas and they generate next to nothing for the space and cost. We need some new ideas.
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Technology improves daily, we are starting to figure out fusion, solar and wind tech keeps getting better. This is most definitely doable.
Just glancing though wikipedia saw this little gem
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Commercial concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) plants were first developed in the 1980s. CSP plants such as SEGS project in the United States have a levelized energy cost (LEC) of 12?14 ¢/kWh.[57] The 11 MW PS10 power tower in Spain, completed in late 2005, is Europe's first commercial CSP system, and a total capacity of 300 MW is expected to be installed in the same area by 2013.[58]
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300 mega watts is a lot of fucking power. let's build these en mass.
