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Originally Posted by murraypaul
And if solar power becomes that economical, why wouldn't you have large centrally-generated solar installations? And it seems very likely that one large solar array would be more efficient than 100 little domestic sized ones.
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Probably not. What you gain from economy of scale in purchasing, you lose with transmission and land costs. You have to put the panels somewhere. For home use, you use your roof, which is waste space - and nobody is going to sue over a flat-footed turkey lizard habitat...