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- I understand some people are working on panels that will also convert some of the heat to photons to produce additional electric power. May never happen or could be 10+ years out. But still, people are working on many areas of improvement.
- 20 miles inland the temp is 109F
- 30 watts? How is it inland? Maybe 100 MW 20 miles inland would do better.
MX must have some good sun somewhere.... - WTH?
In the dense coastal fog my 30-watt panel yields 6 watts pointed right at the east. Try using equatorial mounts in the tropics and after one tropical cyclone, you will have a field of destroyed worthless junk. It's almost 2:00 PM at the moment. And although the temp is 80+F the fog is very real. There is not a breath of air.
The loudest experts on the changing climate are located in California. Too bad they have zero formal education about what they are ranting about. Reminds me of the RED GUARDS in China of the 1970s. pnichols wrote:
Yes people are starting to figure out that pointing the panels more to the East will capture more power due to weather conditions and better match demand profiles.
In this CA it doesn't ... the sun doesn't even work here many mornings - too much fog.time2roll wrote:
Something must be odd about CA as the wind actually picks up at night.
That only happens in regular CA. In this CA it doesn't ... the sun doesn't even work here many mornings - too much fog.
FWIW, they can now make protein from (still) air - if only they could make kilowatts the same way ....? :h- California Odd?????????????
NAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
All that and wind power is still lower cost than your coal plant.
The costs for a utility scale wind turbine range from about $1.3 million to $2.2 million per MW of nameplate capacity installed. Most of the commercial-scale turbines installed today are 2 MW in size and cost roughly $3-$4 million installed.
Average US wind O&M costs estimated at $48,000/MW
The median operations and maintenance (O&M) cost for a U.S. utility-scale wind farm with a full wrap guarantee was just over $48,000/MW in 2016 and the average age of installed turbines is now around six years, IHS Markit said in a new report.Nov 22, 2017
Oh wait that info is incorrect!
The wind farm is becalmed at night. Perhaps moon panels can help.
Something must be odd about CA as the wind actually picks up at night.- The costs for a utility scale wind turbine range from about $1.3 million to $2.2 million per MW of nameplate capacity installed. Most of the commercial-scale turbines installed today are 2 MW in size and cost roughly $3-$4 million installed.
Average US wind O&M costs estimated at $48,000/MW
The median operations and maintenance (O&M) cost for a U.S. utility-scale wind farm with a full wrap guarantee was just over $48,000/MW in 2016 and the average age of installed turbines is now around six years, IHS Markit said in a new report.Nov 22, 2017
Oh wait that info is incorrect!
The wind farm is becalmed at night. Perhaps moon panels can help.
