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Jesse Peltan
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“solar is low energy density” is an NPC take. The sunlight falling on a single parking space is enough to drive a Tesla Model Y 55 miles per day. (22% efficient panels, 5 Sun hours/day) The average U.S. driver drives 40 miles per day.
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Jesse Peltan
@JessePeltan
Solar covered parking could generate as much electricity as all existing sources combined in the U.S. (~4,400 TWh/year) - U.S. has an estimated 1-2 billion parking spaces - 1 billion standard sized parking spaces = 14 billion square meters (3.4 TW @ 24% efficiency) - 4,400 x.com/MiddleEastSola…
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Josue Ramirez
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Charge some days 20 miles, some days 80 miles. You don’t get to pick the day. It’s all about the storage. Specially if you rely on it for heat.
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Jesse Peltan
@JessePeltan
Sure, but you have 300 miles of range in the battery. You can provide the vast majority of energy needs on-site, export most days, and import a few days a year. And this is from a single parking space. We have 4-8 parking spaces per vehicle, rooftops, and other forms of
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Jeffrey Dean Hochderffer
@JHochderffer
For design reasons, it’s better to have the panels elsewhere and just charge the car. There is a reason why Teslas became popular. It’s because they look good and perform well, unlike other EVs that looked like crap Putting panels all over the car would make them less
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Jesse Peltan
@JessePeltan
I'm talking about solar covered parking. Panels on the car would generate a smaller amount because the parking space is bigger than the car and only a portion of the car can have solar cells on it.
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Ramblin EVpress
@EvpressRamblin
Don't get lost in the EV dialog. The biggest demand drivers are going to be AI, datacenters, smart cities, and the electrification of everything. EV's are just the first blip on the radar. All the big tech players are now signing on for nuclear power as they can see pretty
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noah rogers
@nmrrhq
Systems level: skyscrapers life expectancy ~50 years, so design a city that doesn't need cars. "The best tesla is no tesla"
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Miles Parker 🇪🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇪
@MilesIParker
Not exactly a formal definition of energy density is it, though? You should definitely compare the kJ of energy from a kilogram of uranium vs a kilogram of sunlight
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Kris 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇸
@Panopticon_KAS
Isn’t this more a testament to how much excess parking we have? Level the lots and build housing.
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Tim A
@pandemik0
If solar was in every roof you'd have more energy than humanity needs. The panels material and energy cost to build and replace every 25 years would be a miniscule ammount of resources compared to the whole of building and construction
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cyberdyne_canary
@CyberdyneC
Solar is fine there's even many good reasons to install solar covered parking everywhere (mostly just that covered parking is great and reduces urban heat islands) It is never going to run our whole industrialized society tho 🤷‍♂️
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David Bryan
@imdavidbryan
That's misinformation. Solar can't harness energy very well at all & with so much land required for solar farms & the mining & the recycling nightmare - environmental disaster.
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EnergeticPariah
@EnergeticPariah
So if you park it for one day, I can drive the avg distance the next, and then park it for a day and then drive it the next? Your math is so far off reality it’s not funny
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Ian Willis
@ausnuc_ian
The problem is not collecting diffuse energy. The problem is making it reliable. Even if solar was free, it would still be difficult to decarbonise. #intermittents for dispatable loads. #Nuclear for baseload, industry and critical loads.
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The whole "solar and wind is for rich people, poor people need coal" was always dishonest, and that's more and more evident every year.
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Some parts of the global south have even outpaced China. Latin America hit the same share of renewable generation as China, but got there four years *faster*: on.ft.com/3A3UxTT
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