Morocco Has Fired Up the World’s Largest Solar Power Plant!

Electric utilities aren't competing with China.

 

Because of their ignorance, plan on repeating much more. These folks are still living decades in the past, and they seem to be paralyzed from doing any research on their own. They must be lead around by the hand.

By the way, thank you for being unafraid to research information on your own. Too bad we can't say the same for some of these others.

 

I'll bet you a dollar Trump doesn't even care.

 

I can't find the study from KACST in 1991 about how much sunlight and what the equivalent would be in barrels of oil. I think it was 30 billion barrels a day. Morocco is probably close to that.

 

What does the size of land mass have to do with anything?

 

But, but, we have filthy rivers from coal and Black lung Disease.

 

Since when has that prevented anyone from posting on PF?

 

I just think its sort of rude to take up large chunks of bandwidth with pictures of parrots and broken LPs.

 

What a cro-Magnon response. "We're more advanced because we can destroy the world".
Wow.
A bacteria can eliminate you.
What an inane argument.

 

WOW!!! Solar power, in the land of super intense heat. I'll be they also make a lot of glass vases too, huh? All that sand.

 

Not familiar with how coal power plants work eh?

 

There are MANY places in the US where solar applications would work well.

 

Why don't you get Harry Reid on it? Mach schnell!

 

I put solar hot water on my roof in 1979.. Saved a ton of money.

 

A few weeks ago the UK had it's first ever day without generating power from coal. It is perfectly possible to do this in a fully industrialised nation all you have to do is modernise your energy industry and invest in a variety of non polluting sources of power. This can only happen when your leader is not in thrall to the coal industry though.

 

Nothing wrong with that. I will guarantee this. When everyone starts using solar energy, conventional electricity will become so expensive no one can afford it. There will always be a need for it, solar can't carry the entire load.

 

I know that ... although Saudi Arabia built 3 villages completely off grid by 1983... About 9,000 people.

 

And how long did it take for the UK to get this structure in place? A decade? Maybe longer? I'm all for the conversion into "Green Energy", but if you think it's going to happen at the snap of a finger, think again. I saw a report that basically outlined that the best energy policy is a balanced one. If we increase non-pollutant energies, that will(naturally and obviously) lower the polluting ones. And if every nation lowered its polluting ones, then that in of itself will be a significant step against "climate change"(Well, at least it will be a bigger step than if the US were to unilaterally cut off all of its coal production today.)

Coal/GAS is an energy resource, we shouldn't just cut it off completely. Otherwise, we become totally dependent upon the Green energies, and is it really as renewable as we think? We haven't used it in such large volumes, until what Germany/England is trying to do.

So tell you what: I support gradually increasing green/renewable energies, but I prefer a balanced approach until we see that total green is viable.

 

Trump's move to reinvigorate the coal market may have the positive consequence of galvanizing the world's resolve in ensuring that there will never again be a market for it in the future? That would be cool.

 

familiar enough to know that they shut down for maintenance. Because looking at the pic,... I doubt it's running where they are at.

 

So the answer is you are guessing.

 

Hopefully technology will put an end to our currently crude methods of generating power. I'm sure it will. The transition will be painful economically until we get there. That's really the reason so many people are so entrenched against the Paris Accord. That and the rest of the globe expects Uncle Sam to bear the brunt of the costs. It's unrealistic to be totally green until we're ready. It's purely an economics reality, not a touchy feelly "poor planet" nor a right wing conspiracy.

 

That's one of the things Trump said that isn't true.

 

I don't follow.

 

Think it's a well educated guess that the pic from the coalplant maintenance... that they won't be finished before lunch, and the machines are not working with them in it.