1 TW of solar to be deployed annually by 2030
Having done the numbers to understand solar (and having designed and built a 13 kW array myself) the hubris exhibited in these conversations about solar continues to perplex me.<p>There simply isn&#x27;t a comparison between nuclear and solar.  Nuclear is a far better solution on all fronts.  The reality of solar is very different from the dream of solar.<p>The simplest calculations clearly show this.  In order to match the power output of a nuclear power plant you need to build a photovoltaic solar installation of at least seven times the peak power output.  In other words, if you want the equivalent of a 1 GW nuclear power plant, the minimum size of your solar array is at least 7 GW peak.  And it gets worse, much worse, from there.<p>Why doesn&#x27;t anyone ever bother to do the math before they become blind champions of technologies they clearly do not understand at a technological level?<p>I understand the emotional connection with wanting to be &quot;clean&quot;.  Yet, at some point, you have to connect the dream with reality through numbers.  Numbers of this type do not lie.  The comparison is brutally tilted in favor of nuclear.