OT Large solar PV panel installation

... and you haven't included the oil wells used to make the plastic blades.

This really isn't the problem with wind farms, they don't occupy all the land, just the bit with the tower. You can have sheep all around them.

The problem is intermittency.

Andy

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Vir Campestris
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Drax was one of three power stations built to utilise the coal from the Selby coalfield. The largest of the six mines there covered 110 acres. So, dividing six mines by three power stations and assuming all were about the same size we could, perhaps, add a couple of hundred acres to Drax, bringing up to 2,000 acres to provide power on demand 24/7, as compared to the 25,000 acres that would be needed for the same installed capacity, but intermittent supply, from solar PV.

Colin Bignell

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Nightjar

And of course, mine have once only uses. Solar power fields can be used forever. (That's the renewable bit)

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harryagain

Now do the same calculation for the gigawatt or so that is now burning Canadian forests...

Its reckoned that it is about 0.1W/sq meter in terms of biomass.

that's 100kW per square kilometers, so a gigawatt is 10,000 square kilometers of woodland under constant usage to supply one quarter of Drax.

The thing about renewable energy, is that it makes so much SENSE....

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The Natural Philosopher

The solar panels need to be replaced about every 25 years. A nuclear power station will last twice as long and be similar in land use to Drax. That is the wasteful bit about renewable energy.

Colin Bignell

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Nightjar

That is just ONE of the wasteful bits about renewable energy...I could cite many more..

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The Natural Philosopher

And noise and blade flicker. Watched summat on the telly the other day shot near a windfarm the blade flicker was most disturbing.

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Dave Liquorice

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