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hiAndrewQuinn 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Can solar costs keep shrinking?

What if I just bought a field and laid them on the ground, over some plastic or something? Sure, I might be giving up some efficiency gains by not swiveling towards the sunlight or something, but I have to imagine there's a "plug and play" option possible here.

Tade0 5 months ago | [–]

There's precedent:

https://electrek.co/2022/12/12/texas-solar-farm-flat-on-the-...

I think the efficiency figures are exaggerated, but the fact remains that such an installation requires less labour.

ibeff 5 months ago | [–]

I wish JUST ONE PERSON in the comments would read the gosh darn article.

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