Photovoltaic Power Stations or More Commonly, Solar Farms

Photovoltaic Power Stations or More Commonly, Solar Farms


There's something I really want to go over, and this in particular is about solar farms and their utility in our modern world. I'm going to start with the numbers first, then I'll explain them in laymen terms. With Photovoltaic power stations it costs about $1.8 billion to produce a plant that competes with common power plants. The typical coal power plant costs $1.5 billion without any environmental protections like capturing the carbon produced. It cost $2.6 billion for the coal plants that "carbon capture and storage", then it's $482 million for a natural gas power plant. The fossil fuel plants are definitely less expensive to say the least about them.

The problem with them is that they are using limited resources and they are major producers of pollution. The ‘solar panel farms’ are a facility that takes a good amount of money, but they are using a resource that is unlimited and they are producing no waste or pollution in the process! These things are hard to beat in my opinion. I personally believe global warming will come to a tilting point and an ice age will happen regardless, but we shouldn’t be rushing into the second half of the situation by any means possible.

There’s currently coal plants that are lasting 30 years past their life expectancy right now and coal plants aren’t being produced much anymore. There’s more and more wind-powered plants and solar plants being built now than ever before! I strongly urge anyone to make sure that these are supported by your elected officials and that you look into some programs to get your own house setup with solar power!

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