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Re: We're going to need a lot of solar panels

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A lot of what you typed have nothing to do with my answer. You also seem to be making a lot of very uncharitable and unpolite assumptions about me that don't make sense at all, since I only posted one single message, so I'll assume you're under the impression that I am someone else. Sorry but I won't be dragged into an internet argument.

Seems like every time extremist solar fans try to say "I don't understand why everyone doesn't just do it my way, which doesn't work unless you engage in exotic housing outside of cities," and someone points out why that doesn't actually work, they take it like a personal attack

I don't see why you're trying to claim I'm an "extremist solar fan" here, when all I did was trying to clarify what someone else meant.

I seriously hold no dog in this race but you're literally calling me a radical... maybe you're confusing me with someone else?

Re: We're going to need a lot of solar panels

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> out to be closer to the PV fields All those crazy people moving to AZ and NV in the US did something right. Their energy costs to AirCon is going to need it. But actually this seems like it would position well certain parts of the US that are growing (sun belt).

It helps out a bunch that there is a nuclear power plant outside of Phoenix and the Hoover dam in Vegas generating all kinds of carbon-free electricity to power the air conditioning.

That NPP evaporates large amounts of water (obtained from the waste water stream of the area). It would probably be better for Phoenix if it were replaced with non-thermal generation and the water reused for other purposes.
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