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Australia nuclear facility installs massive rooftop solar system to save $2 million
(reneweconomy.com.au)
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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That headline is a bait and switch.
To be honest even if it was a power plant... they're already in the business of generating power. If generating more clean power in the same space is an option, that sounds great
Power plants still need power to operate and even your own supply is not free.
Loop?
That’s how we got Chernobyl, and part of why Fukushima melted (because the backup generation was under the tsunami).
Yeah, and nuclear reactors use a lot of electrical power anyway. When they're first starting they need to draw a lot from the grid and they all have powerful backup generators and battery banks to keep the systems online in the event they need to suddenly shutdown the reactor.
The implausible thing would actually be getting approval to put the panels up, since reactors have high standards for checking the consequences of different materials being used on-site.
It's free real estate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Although, why the fuck are we not plastering those giant nuclear vent thingies (the technical term) with solar panels? Or really any surface that can support them?
At least here in Australia, we believe in the right for a select group of billionaires to make money off the land in the form of coal mining, and renewable energy threatens that right.
Now that the world is turning away from coal as much as possible, we're now pivoting to allow a select group of billionaires to make money off the land in the form of uranium mining, and renewable energy also threatens that.
Because solar panel efficiency is already pretty low so it's best to put them in the areas and in the orientation in which they will receive the most light