• Powderhorn@beehaw.org
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    8 hours ago

    On a cloud-free day with ideal sun angles, that’s a theoretical max of 60MWh/day. Just to be conservative, let’s go with half that on average over the year. That’s ~11TWh/year. Yeah, that should handle a couple of large amusement parks.

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      7 hours ago

      And while it was an investment to do, they essentially just zeroed one of their largest bills. Why isn’t everyone with a large parking lot doing this again?

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        7 hours ago

        Because most of their money isn’t liquid they can’t actually afford it

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          3 hours ago

          If it made financial sense, any bank would give a loan for a project whose generation offset a greater cost than the monthly payment. Assuming decent business history.

          The companies that sell these projects likely partner with some financial institutions to offer loans.

          So I don’t think this is a liquidity issue.