implementation which works 99.99% of the time
Republicans: “It’s broken and bad”
stand for nothing.
Wait until he discovery day and night.
Flip the script around, and what this tells us is that within the very narrow path of totality, 30 gigawatts of solar power is produced within minutes. That’s a decent amount of power, very quickly, for basically free. Plus all the other solar power still being produced outside the area in totality.
Gets even more ridiculous when you factor in all the solar power that will be produced within just that same path by time the next eclipse hits us in 20 years. If a couple minutes of losing sunlight is 30 gigawatts, 20 years of having sunlight is multiple millions of gigawatts produced. I think we can just scrape the lost 30 off the top of those millions and call it good.
If only what that corpo shill said was accurate
Perhaps someone should tell this dickhead about all of the land the US will lose due to carbon emissions from coal power. Or maybe mention the continuing increase in business insurance due to the same thing. If we are going to point out the adverse effects of solar we should point out the adverse affects of coal.
Also the incredibly long supply lines that go to fossil fuel plants. Solar panels aren’t as green as we like to think, but they’re rugged as fuck and require 0 infrastructure to produce power. Most of the maintenance is wiping them with a damp sponge¹, and (these ghouls should love this part) zero non-maintenance labor to operate, no moving parts, and they work best during peak demand times, right? If I were powering my Last Redoubt, solar would be up there on my list of options until the sun dies.
¹i know, hyperbole, but not much of it
I missed out on about 5kwh. Guess I’ll start pulling the panels off the roof now.
This is unironically the standard corporate response to any temporary slowing of growth.
Why wouldn’t it be? They already took the subsidy and got the green washing. They can switch back to the grid and move it to the expense line on the P&L. And sell the hardware to recoup the difference in cost the subsidy didn’t cover.
You can’t just wait for government funds to come to you. You have to take it before your competition does. And if you exhaust the funds before they or anyone else can take advantage, you look better to the market. Stock price go up.
David Hume moment
Wait until this moron finds out how many GiGaWaTts we will lose after sunset
What a Gigatwat
His followers are the literal caveman pointing wojack.
“Number big!! Number big!!”
Meaning solar energy produces 30 gigawats per 2 minutes?
Not bad, should build even more.
And that’s just a narrow stretch of the country that received the solar eclipse!
When there is only 50% totality, photovoltaic also makes 50% less. You just do not notice it when looking around, because your eyes adjust to the changed brightness. So a photovoltaic produces less for a longer time. What I found, for the 2017 eclipse, was that around 16GW were impacted with at most a reduction of 5GW in one moment.
He may be counting the 1 kW per square metre of sunlight that reaches the ground, not just the fraction we turn to electricity
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Wait till hears about night.
I suspect if you went through his history he has already told us that solar is useless because of night, and that wind is useless because sometimes it’s still
We’ve reached peak sun! It’s all gone!!
Daylight Savings Time was just greenwashing all along.
Wind energy? Hydro energy? Nuclear energy? There’s like more ways to get energy.
I also don’t know if this guy is pointing out that the sun gives us so much energy, so we should use it more or that the sun could be covered sometimes rendering it useless.
Definitely the latter. His bad faith argument is meant to discredit an alternative energy source.
Sigh… Same energy as the following:
We lost all that sunlight. Add this to the long list of reasons why “farming” food is unreliable.
Another way to look at this: The solar infrastructure that is affected by the eclipse alone can generate roughly 30 GW
On the vast majority of days, as compared to these particular 3 minutes of Solar Eclipse.
the only solution is that we blow up the moon
Can we tell everyone that Jesus said they need to go to moon first?
Just carve a hole in it so that the sun shines through even during an eclipse. Heck, have fun with it and make it a smiley face so you can see the Man in the Moon better during an eclipse.
With solar powered rockets? We’re doomed!!
ok this one is funny
