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(these are solar thermic power plants, their panels are black and usually assisted by mirrors leading to a similar look)
Solar thermal concentrators, they get so hot they have to use liquid metal.
Parabolic plants also exist w/o a tower of sauron.
But half the fun is having a gleaming tower of doom!
Didn’t this exact plant go bankrupt due to solar panels being so much more efficient?
If you mean the Vegas one, then yes it’s closing, don’t know if it’s gone bankrupt exactly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
The facility, though cost effective at the time it was planned (2009), is now twice as expensive to run as solar photovoltaic technology, which has decreased in price much more rapidly than was expected in the 15 years since Ivanpah’s construction began.
There are hundreds of these.
It would make sense.
Thermal concentrator cost is basically fixed: mirrors of a specific quality, tracking mounts, an eye of sauron cooling loop. That tech doesn’t change much. Same with parabolic pipe plants.
But the bulk of photovoltaic installation cost is the panels. And those get exponentially cheaper.
They’ve gotten cheap, in fact, that the panels are sometimes less expensive than the labor and mounting hardware.
Yeah.
At some point, mounting them statically becomes even cheaper than a tracking mount, I guess.
It’s always a steam turbine?
🌎🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀If only we could figure out a way to harness the power of the Giant Fan on the other side of the sun.
Just like modded Minecraft.
Lotta loss in that system.
Should’ve put the water tank on the left to avoid loss
It seems like we could make this a lot more efficient by using pistons and having the sunlight push the pistons, turning a generator.
big solar has kept the truth about free power generation hidden for years.
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I want us to build a Dyson swarm which is a bunch of ginormous pistons with attached even more ginormous solar sails. The solar sails pull the pistons which make generator go brr, and we become a K-2 civilization.
Good idea! We’ll just need some steam turbines to help sunlight move the pistons in order to reach peak efficiency!
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