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jihadgis t1_jd9qmc8 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Maine's Energy future by mainething

I'm not even remotely qualified, but it seems obvious that maintaining several/many solar farms along the median-located transmission line would incur less maintenance costs over time than tending a relatively delicate network over the course of hundreds of linear miles ... in traffic.

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MacTechG4 t1_jd9nh3n wrote

Reply to comment by blutigetranen in Suuuuuure by Eyesonsunday

If I;

A; didn’t hate automatics so much

B; didn’t want to pay for the fuel mileage penalty of a V8

C; didn’t prefer a usable cabin like a wagon/hatchback …

I’d have seriously considered a P71, and I have no desire to ‘be a cop’, I just appreciate a dead simple body on frame chassis and rear wheel drive (especially in the winter ;) )

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aconsent t1_jd9mkio wrote

Has anyone performed the analysis necessary to determine how many Gigawatts could be produced with the median solution (in a year)?

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