Mitsui to build huge solar power plants in disaster areas (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

Mitsui to build huge solar power plants in disaster areas

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Trading company giant Mitsui & Co. plans to build huge solar power plants in the Tohoku region to help the region recover from the March 11 disaster by easing its power shortages, it was learned Wednesday.

Mitsui plans to build several large solar plants with a combined generation capacity of about 100,000 kilowatts, enough to supply electricity to about 30,000 households, company sources said.

It will be the first large-scale solar power project in the quake-hit region.

Mitsui intends to ease power shortages and provide work to people who lost their jobs due to the earthquake and tsunami.

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[arcane1]

1. Good idea, one must start somewhere!

I can't think of a better place to start...

[FBaggins]

2. A grand idea... but lousy reporting.

Huge?

Several plants that combine to produce 1/10th of what a single reactor produces... and that's just when the sun is at its brightest. Over the course of an average 24hr period the would produce at best 20% of that figure.

So they need to build fifty times this many "huge solar power plants" to replace one reactor.

[BeFree]

3. Really?

If so, That means they need to build 200 times as many to replace the 4 dead reactors.

[FBaggins]

4. More than four dead reactors.

Six at that plant alone that will probably never restart.

So 300 times these "several.... huge" plants to replace one plant.

Then do it again long before the average new reactor lifespan wears out.

But at least they don't blow up. So that's something.