[aerohead]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

I'm sure there was nothing clean about how those panels were manufactured.
Unless they're on trackers you only get about 1kwh per 200 to 220 watts of panel. This is with SoCal, AZ, NM, West TX weather and sun.
That would be 60 to 65 million kwh per day.
Where a 1 giga nuclear power plant will generate 1 gigawatt for 24 hours straight, rain or shine. For a total of 24 million kwh per day.

With normal power plants you have 1 watt of generation capacity and you get 1 watt hour over a 24hr period. With solar you get more like 1 watt hour for every 5 or 6 watts of capacity, then if you want to use it later you have to store it some how.

So comparing a solar farm to nuclear plant is fair. As long as you count total kwh produced. So for 13 billion dollars they made 2.5 of the worlds most expensive power plants that don't work at night and lose a serious amount of capacity on cloudy days and rainy days.

If you're 'sure' then you know,and have the information to share.Please do!