Steven Den Beste touts a huge breakthrough in solar power!
A San Francisco company said Friday it plans to build the world’s largest solar power farm near Fresno, California.The 80-megawatt farm is to occupy as much as 640 acres and upon completion in 2011 will be 17 times the size of the largest U.S. solar farm, said Cleantech America LLC, a privately held 2-year-old company.
Steven comments:
80 megawatts! Wow!Today, California used 40 gigawatts at its peak, around 5 PM. That’s 500 times the anticipated power output of that plant.
Uh huh. There’s a few other problems, too.
That’s the problem with trying to impress engineers. They keep bringing up these stupid numbers….