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BrightKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 03:50 AM
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10. It's probably nominal capacity/year. Actual would be about 100 MW
Edited on Fri Apr-08-11 03:54 AM by BrightKnight
I believe that solar panels only actually produce about 25% of their nominal capacity. In 10 to 20 years they should be able to produce about enough capacity to offset a single reactor. The life of a solar panel is about that long.

They should do this but the heavy lifting is going to be done by dirty coal.
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