(22-04-2022, 06:12 PM)harm_less Wrote: (22-04-2022, 05:21 PM)Wainuiguy Wrote: Can't recall the name but it was the one on the west coast.  1000 hectares buried under steel and glass - sounds like a pretty big environmental impact right there.
Did you miss the bit in the article in the OP about the solar farm including "sheep grazing, cropping, pollinator planting and beekeeping"? Pretty difficult to do those activities in a flooded valley. And the solar farm will retire land from its current dairy farming use which arguably a questionable activity on pumice based soils.
(22-04-2022, 05:36 PM)Wainuiguy Wrote: No because the one I was thinking of was delined a number of years ago.
This one I believe.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korih...ati-waewae
So, how many hectares would the dam have inundated. Considering it was designed to produce "20 megahertz [sic] of electricity", which I assume was meant to be 20 MW it would have had 1/20 of the generating capacity of Nova's planned solar installation so the comparative generation capacity was likely to be a no-contest on a MW/ha basis.
Hopefully was the word used.
(22-04-2022, 06:24 PM)Magoo Wrote: (22-04-2022, 05:23 PM)king1 Wrote: Are you talking Helium-3? Mining on the Moon...
Iron Sky - average movie, could have been done better...
no, i saw a doco some time back about harvesting solar winds and energy from space and projecting it to earth.
Ben Bova wrote quite a good novel called Powersat about just such a plan.
