30 Jun 2023 9:41 am
The insurance carrier will hire a contractor to clean that up and replace all those panels.Nostradamus'omh » 30 Jun 2023, 9:19 am » wrote: ↑ Build either a natural gas, coal, nuke power plant there. Land won't be good for anything else.
The glass in a solar panel would be the second least expensive part after the frame. This undoubtedly has happened many times before. Likely a solar panel manufacturer can re glass the panels.
Why are the “wokesters” building five million dollar solar farms, anyway?
They make money, is why.
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Since most utility solar farms have a 5 MW size (about 20 acres), you will likely make around $156,569 profit from your farm.Jun 21, 2023
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Where there’s enough wind, new build wind farms are more profitable and produce power at 2 cents a kilowatt.
But a solar farm can be built about anywhere there’s 20 acres. They produce 6 cents an hour electricity.
Why not coal?
Coal is more expensive
—All of the nation’s coal-fired power plants but one are less cost-effective to operate than constructing new solar or wind facilities in the United States, according to a study published Monday by the firm Energy Innovation.Analysts compared operating costs at the 210 coal plants in the continental U.S. in 2021 to the estimated costs of developing new solar and wind, both within about 28 miles of the plants and within the broader region.
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I grew up in love with coal miners and I’ll miss coal, but few others will.
Songs about wind farms and solar farms, are sure to be pretty lame.
https://youtu.be/FS8zCFN1h1g