...Farm

11/16/2010 8:00:25 PM

it needs to be bigger. and needs to power the entire united states

11/16/2010 8:01:32 PM

11/16/2010 8:20:05 PM

Dunno the top one but ^ is in france.

11/16/2010 8:23:51 PM

Jim Goodnight has got a pretty good thing going over at SAS:

11/16/2010 8:28:13 PM

mmmm molten sodium

11/16/2010 8:28:43 PM

11/16/2010 8:51:01 PM

please post the maximum output of the solar farms in the pictures you are posting

that SAS farm puts out a laughable 1 MW

we have pumps that draw more than 1 MW

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11/16/2010 8:59:29 PM

Fuck yo pumps

11/16/2010 9:08:28 PM

Solar farms are a joke at this point. There needs to be a 100x improvement in efficiency before it makes any sense. Look at how much land area it requires to produce small amount of electricity. What impact does that have on the environment.

A new nuke plant that takes up the same area produces 600 times that output. And if Obama hadn't shut down Yucca Mt. then we would have a safe place to put spent fuel.

US needs to get their heads out of their asses and build some real power plants.

11/16/2010 9:10:53 PM

I don't know much about solar, but they actually have two solar farms, so it is actually just over 2 MW.

11/16/2010 9:11:43 PM

seems like wind would be more output for the same area

11/16/2010 9:14:55 PM

the southeast isn't good for windpower

11/16/2010 9:57:33 PM

more like good for SLAVE-POWER!! AMIRITE SOUTHERN BITTER CIVIL WAR GUYS!! EHHH????

11/16/2010 10:18:34 PM

we should harness all the waves created by Messicans swimming through the Rio Grande......

11/16/2010 10:44:48 PM

for the people bitching about how much land solar takes up, I guess you've never seen a uranium mine, a cooling pond, or the massive pumped hydro facilities required for nuclear because we can't cycle load on a reactor.

11/16/2010 10:52:31 PM

Well if we went solely to solar then 50% of the land mass of the us would be solar panels.

11/17/2010 12:06:06 AM

We should do what they do in Europe, burn garbage for fuel. It gets rid of a ton of waste, and generates power. Apparently the filters are advanced to the point where the smoke is pretty clean.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/science/earth/13trash.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

11/17/2010 12:23:33 AM

Quote :

"SMOKE IS PRETTY CLEAN"

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11/17/2010 12:57:59 AM

^^ The Mayor in Holly Springs tried to get one of those put in as an alternative to the landfill and got shot down. Seems like a reasonable use of higher taxes looking 30-50 years out. If the Raleigh-metro keeps expanding it will have to fill in around a landfill where it otherwise would just be a small waste burning plant.

11/17/2010 7:05:57 AM

Quote :

"Well if we went solely to solar then 50% of the land mass of the us would be solar panels. "

you want to validate that statement?

11/17/2010 10:17:32 AM

Quote :

"Apparently the filters are advanced to the point where the smoke is pretty clean."

If dioxins are pretty clean then yeah I guess you right.

11/17/2010 10:21:06 AM

i thought this thread was about

11/17/2010 10:32:55 AM

Revert to whale oil.

It's completely renewable.

11/17/2010 11:26:17 AM

11/17/2010 12:08:19 PM

We should get fat kids to bicycle our power and kill two birds with one stone; the first bird being obesity, not the fat kids.

11/17/2010 1:08:46 PM

liquid bed waste boilers are a great idea.

it reduces needed landfill capacity and creates energy. and yes the precips and filters can reduce the emissions greatly. You end up with ash that can be disposed of in controlled ponds. if the ash gets into the ground water it can become acidic and dangerous though

11/17/2010 1:29:34 PM

Build wind turbines out of solar panels, including the blades.

Done and done.

11/17/2010 1:35:22 PM

Solar boilers with steam turbines are awesome and would last forever photo voltaics on the other hand aren't worth a damn and without tax and power incentives they never pay off.

11/17/2010 1:49:54 PM

haha

this was a parody thread

11/23/2010 2:42:22 PM