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To: martin_fierro

I visited the City of Austin Solar farm.

It is what it is. 390 acres to produce 30 MW max.

Granted the land was not that valuable and the greens feel good.


2 posted on 09/26/2011 9:23:52 AM PDT by hadaclueonce ("Endeavor to persevere.")
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To: hadaclueonce

I guess the only thing you can say is....good start. Below is an idea of how much land is required to generate the equalivent power of a normal sized power plant.

There’s around 800MW of total Nameplate Capacity for all Solar Power in the US, around as much as for one medium sized coal fired plant. If all those Solar Plants produced at their maximum, which by the way means that a way has to be found to make the Sun shine for all night as well as all day, then they could deliver around 600Million KWH of power. They actually delivered 143 million KWH of power to the grids they are connected to. This gives them a power delivery efficiency of 23.8%, effectively meaning they too can only deliver their power for around 6 hours of each day. The rolling 6 month percentage only comes in at 13.1%, or around 3 hours a day.


6 posted on 09/26/2011 10:54:19 AM PDT by Recon Dad ("Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way..")
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