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by bhuber
1485 days ago
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Agreed, it's actually fairly impressive. Beware the false equivalence fallacy however - there's little overlap in the expertise needed to design and install a home solar array, and that needed to analyze the economics of complex industrial technologies. Based on my links above, I think op is a far better electrician than economist. Also, I doubt op ever built a nuclear reactor in his backyard :D |
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Except I have been responsible for the design, construction, installation and operation of large complex industrial installations. That is what I did 40 years ago. Not solar, of course, but beyond a certain scale a project is a project, whether you are building a bridge, road or chemical processing installation. Of course, the private sector has different dynamics when compared to government projects.
Also, as I mentioned in my other reply to you, I never made financial claims about solar. This is a branch introduced by someone who could not argue against what I was saying and chose to divert the conversation. My claim was simple:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31430747
"if you want the equivalent of a 1 GW nuclear power plant, the minimum size of your solar array is at least 7 GW peak"
So, please, don't charge me with something I did not enter into the argument.