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0 pointspfdietz2y ago0 comments

Last I checked in West Texas, the cost of land was < 2% of the total cost of installing a solar field. This was for land at $1200/acre.

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beembeem2y ago· 1 in thread

Yes, you cherry-picked an under-regulated market with cheap land. Not to mention that cheap land is usually further from metro areas and thus requires more distribution costs. Either way, as I mentioned land acquisition cost does not fully encapsulate the environmental costs of covering large tracts of natural land with panels.

pfdietzOP2y ago

I looked in online real estate sites recently and found $1000/acre land within a few hours of NY City. Land is quite cheap.

I hope you are spending your time attacking farming, which uses orders of magnitude more land than PV (and will even in a PV-powered world) and delivers orders of magnitude less economic value per unit of land.

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