Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Peter Zeihan || The Solar Power Problem(s)" video.

@cletushatfield8817 The fudge does that mean? Being hosted in shows with different audiences is a way to gain notoriety, not an exercise in spoonfeeding.
2
Yes. Reusing and recycling panels is great. Compared to buying new panels you paid "0" in carbon emissions. There's a video of guys in Ukraine (unrelated to the war, it was maybe 5-6 years ago) who bought broken photovoltaic cells, soldered them together, and epoxied them to a glass window. The recycled panels generated maybe 70% of a perfect condition, new one.
1
That's great but knocking down all the old houses would make getting an affordable home even harder.
1
@fairhall001 so garbage incineration and sweeping the problem under the rug. Road wear is alreasy terrible, if there's fiberglass in the air while I'm driving down the highway I swear wind advocates deserve something I cannot post here due to terms of service.
1
@fairhall001 The German model of dumping fibers inside a wear material?
1
@mxbadboy263 tracking may require added clearance around the panels. A fixed panel with added coverage with maybe a winter and summer setting in the mounts that only needs to be changed twice a year would give you almost the same benefits for less cost.
1
@donbrutcher4501 With the area being the same. You can't have tracking panels close to each other without them bumping into each other, so each panel occupies a certain % more area than the actual area they occupy when still. Put the panels in a row without gaps, and you increase useful area.
1
With enough area, you can produce as much as you want. You're just paying a premium $$$ for area.
1
Same reason why huge warehouses and server farms are built outside population centers. I think the closest coal powered plant in relation to my city centre is probably 15 miles away. It's a big, ugly building. Even if it had no emissions it's just expensive to purchase premium city land to plop down a concrete monster.
1
But solar is mostly "solid state" electronics while wind has a spinny thingy-majig which means maintenance and breakdowns. Solar blocks sunlight from hitting what's beneath them (can be good or bad) but wind has downstream effects regarding temperature and humidity by "robbing" wind energy from the air. Also, build more panels, they all produce independently. Build more wind turbines, the energy taken away from the wind means that there's less wind energy for others to use.
1
@nickkacures2304 Moore's Law is dead. We're hitting the limits of silicon so we're increasing the number of cores instead of pushing the GHz higher.
1