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What is PV?
Photovoltaic
Cool cool cool cool cool… what’s photovoltaic?
Solar cells that generate electricity
There are so many other Quarry’s and coal mines this could be done to. It would actually save the mine companies money as they don’t have to fully return the space to nature.
Good. I’d much rather look at this than the gaping hole of some old abandoned coal mine.
Do I have some news for you: https://gravitricity.com/
They use surplus energy to pull up weights and lower them when energy is in demand, using the principle of a grandfather clock. They are using abandoned mine shafts because they are readily available for this purpose.
All with Chinese panels I assume
If you want to beat the Chinese at solar panels, you need to go back about ten years and find a couple million workers that will take $2/hr to make them.
I’ll look forward to updates on your progress towards this goal.
Australia sounds like it’s about to donate $2B to some grifters that are going to pretend they can do this domestically. They’ll take the money, produce nothing and live happily ever after.
Better decarbonise with Chinese panels than keep burning fossil fuels.
Still better than nuclear fuel refined in Russia. Or gas from Russia.
I’m all for it, but with plants of this size - or rather such an mount of relatively dense photovoltaic surfaces - i am thinking about the heat that these panels are generating. i am guessing it would be similar to such an area out of asphalt. if these panels were cooled the heat could also be used to warm massive heat storage tanks.
And by piping water to the back of the panel to cool it you make the panel operate more efficiently.
Not even enough to go back to the future.
It’s too late to go back to the future. The future was in 2015.
