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Originally Posted by de captain
Do you believe that charging station is self contained and powered entirely by solar?
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Originally Posted by despacito
Tech Crunch basically says that, but TC is not 100% reliable, so IDK (as I said in my last post).
Regardless, a step in the right direction.
LOL, can you please stop throwing me these hilarious softballs? My batting will get weak. You didn't take the physics lesson to heart it seems. Let me quote it for you:
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Originally Posted by ToothSayer
This is comical man. You've been caught in so many Musk lies. Solar can't power superchargers. Do you have any idea how much power a supercharger pulls?? Learn some basic physics before holding forth on stuff you're embarrassingly ignorant about. Musk relies on credulous cretins like you to get away with his lies.
Tesla superchargers pull 150 kW per car. Solar panels give you about 150W per square meter under optimal conditions (full overhead sun in the middle of the day in summer). For a typical five car supercharger, you need 5000 m^2 of panels to power the station. That's the area of an entire football field. And that's only for the middle of a day. You would need a massive expensive battery pack and probably triple that amount of panels (15,000 sq meters) to power a single normally busy supercharger overnight. The cost would be insane. And the inefficiency of installing all of that, adding a high voltage high amperage inverter, etc, would make it an environmental mess and far less desirable than simply using coal.
At a 20% capacity factor (which is the max of what this solar can do, less here because of the horrible siting), you'd need
8 football fields worth of solar panels sited in good conditions (full sun all day with rotating to catch the sun) to power this 39 car charger station at 20% capacity, plus a large expensive battery system. Where are the 8 football fields bro? I see about 1/4 of a football field covered in panels that are shaded, or 30x less than required (60x times less than required with the shading/lack of movement) to run this station at 20% capacity.
In short, you've been conned again. This things pulls its power from the grid and has a few worthless solar panels on the roof for show, to fool idiots. Why do you make it so easy for me?
P.S. If Musk really cared about the environment, he'd be putting up solar thermal plants in NV (which are the most efficient way to get solar), not wasting large sums of money adding some poorly sited panels and batteries for pure show.
P.P.S. Do you see why Musk wastes money and harms the environment to do net harmful stuff like put a few badly sited panels on the roof of his superchargers? So he can lie about it through his PR mouthpieces and morons think he's green/that Tesla cars use solar. It's well worth it for the PR, particularly when people can't do basic math, but it's worthless/net harmful for the environment.
Last edited by ToothSayer; 07-19-2019 at 02:08 PM.