SCIENCE said:

dv said:

but at what cost?

to cover all of australian generation needs ¿ About $1000000000000 times a(n invese) capacity factor of say 3 so a mere 2 years of gdp

which would match the timeline of delivery from some other countries if only we aligned with them

The septuagenarian notes the solar manufacturing in China capacity is “well over one terawatt” these days. By comparison, he says a large coal-fired power station has a capacity of one gigawatt. “So that’s 1,000 large coal-fired power stations a year is what the Chinese industry is capable of manufacturing now,” Green says. “And that number is growing very rapidly.”