– Given that solar energy is less hazardous and renewable, why aren’t more industries and nations fully embracing it?
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Electric Distribution engineer here.
1) Solar doesn’t produce enough energy. Requires a lot of land to produce small amounts of power relative to the alternatives.
2) Only produces energy when the sun is out. Best case scenario around 10am -4pm. So you need to supplement outside those times. Also doesn’t work for cloudy, dark geographies or countries with little land mass like Japan. 3) Solar doesn’t produce any fault duty. Because there is no inertia like from rotating machines, it doesn’t produce high fault currents, which makes detecting faults difficult. We are currently working on this problem with more complicated protection detection. The solution to renewable energy sources Is diversity and nuclear. Use solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and nuclear.
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