▲ 1090 ▼ Obvious choice (thelemmy.club) submitted 4 months ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net 285 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] astutemural@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 child) What if - now hear me out - we built more power lines? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago Yeah absolutely, no one is saying that isnt an option. But when you capture the production as a single build or consideration simply needing the effort you dont account for the costs of infrastructure to hundreds and thousands of sites and quickly you will see that a lot of these sites are not going to produce enough for it to be a viable option. There is load of oil in the ground that we dont take out because it isnt a good investment. This is the same. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago Yeah absolutely, no one is saying that isnt an option. But when you capture the production as a single build or consideration simply needing the effort you dont account for the costs of infrastructure to hundreds and thousands of sites and quickly you will see that a lot of these sites are not going to produce enough for it to be a viable option. There is load of oil in the ground that we dont take out because it isnt a good investment. This is the same. permalink fedilink source parent