Chinese robot outperforms human teams in Australian solar installation hubs.li/Q03k9JTV0
A Chinese tech company says it has completed its first solar module mounting contract with an AI-controlled robot in Australia, helping to carve 25 per cent off the project delivery time, and doing the job of three to four humans.
This robotic installer in Australia demonstrates significant gains in efficiency and scale of the coming solar, wind and battery disruption of our energy systems, installing thousands of panels at a rate equivalent to 3-4 human workers.
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Back in the 1970s
there was a company called Solarex
out of Maryland as I recall
whose CEO was talking about a Solar Breeder
a solar panel factory powered by solar panels
They were bought up by Chevron
& seems to closed down
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"The power density of solar PV is high enough to turn the densest city in the U.S. into an exporter of electricity."
Nice thought experiment
(Jesse and I are aware that this would make NYC a net exporter, but you still need a buffer for the winter.)
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Jesse Peltan
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How much of NYC would you need to cover in solar panels to turn it into a net exporter of electricity?
NYC uses about 50 TWh of electricity per year.
NYC has ~780 square kilometers of land area, and a GHI of 4 kWh/m^2/day, giving a primary solar resource of ~1,100 TWh/year -
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