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RE: Cool! Hats off to Apple
By mcnabney on 10/26/2011 10:41:26 AM , Rating: 3
It is still completely stupid to build solar near Charlotte. It isn't exactly sunny every day.

Charlotte gets 109 sunny days per year.
Phoenix gets 211.

Even with line loss, you would get more KWh building in Arizona and transporting the power all the way across the country.

RE: Cool! Hats off to Apple
By retrospooty on 10/26/2011 11:25:22 AM , Rating: 2
Good point... I live outside of phoenix and I am not sure where you got that data, but its more like 325 sunny days per year. The 211 figure doesn not include mostly sunny and partly sunny, which are all mostly sunny.

RE: Cool! Hats off to Apple
By Reclaimer77 on 10/26/2011 11:47:06 AM , Rating: 2
It is still completely stupid to build solar


RE: Cool! Hats off to Apple
By Paj on 10/27/2011 7:11:30 AM , Rating: 2
Gotta love posts like this, where some guy on the internet make some groundbreaking observation that a multi billion dollar corporation, with teams of scientists, engineers, lawyers and executives, must have missed.

RE: Cool! Hats off to Apple
By Strunf on 10/27/2011 8:08:25 AM , Rating: 2
They didn't miss it, they just chose to ignore it... it's all about getting some "good" publicity!

