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Obsolete Stores for Solar Cells

08/10/2024 5:54 PM

There are many large unused stores in the USA,just sitting there,abandoned.Someone is paying taxes on the buildings and property.For instance a Wal Mart Super Center,covering several acres.

As a general rule, 1 acre of solar panels produces about 351 MWh of electrical energy per year. The actual profit depends on the Country and State/location irradiance (Peak-sun-hours), but the average is approximately $14,000. Installation cost for 1 acre of solar panels is about $450,000.

Why not use the roofs and parking lots for solar cells?The building was supplied with 3 phase main energy suitable for many kilowatts of electricity,it could be used to transmit energy with minor modification of the transformers.

The heavier components could be placed on the bottom floors.

Large buildings are usually replaced with new ones at a different location when the tax depreciation runs out,and they build new ones and the tax depreciation credit carries on.

There is a lot of available space just sitting there, going to waste when it could be used to generate energy.

Is this being used anywhere?

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Re: obsolete stores for solar cells

08/10/2024 8:17 PM

Doesn't make economic sense...

cost to produce

https://www.statista.com/statistics/194327/estimated-levelized-capital-cost-of-energy-generation-in-the-us/

...."A kilowatt-hour costs about $0.15 on average in the U.S. So a Megawatt-hour is $150 worth of electricity.Jun 15, 2015"...

..."Local malls generate an average of $800 per square foot annually, compared to the U.S. average of $600 per square foot.Sep 18, 2023"...

1 acre = about 35,500 square feet...

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08/10/2024 8:28 PM

An acre is 210 x 210 feet.Which is 44100 square feet.

A mall that is not being used is producing nothing,and lots of malls are being abandoned for tax reasons,and decreasing traffic.

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08/11/2024 3:05 PM

Huh!

An acre is 22 yards x 220 yards = 4840 square yards = 43560 square feet.

220 yards is an eighth of a mile: a furlong, short for furrow long, the distance you'd expect a horse to be able to pull a plough without a rest. 22 yards is 4 poles.

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08/11/2024 3:27 PM

An acre is defined as the area of 1 chain (66 feet) by 1 furlong (660 feet), which is exactly equal to 1/640 of a square mile, 43,560 square feet, or exactly 4046.8564224 square meters. History/origin: In the Middle Ages, the acre was defined as the area that a yoke (pair) of oxen could typically plow within one day,

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08/11/2024 3:30 PM

You're right.I have had this value wrong a long time.Thanks for the correction.I will update my memory banks!

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08/11/2024 9:22 PM

Well you've got your common area, which is non-revenue producing...A mall can be repurposed into many different things which continue to be revenue producing, things more suitable for the community at this time...including apartments and/or office space, schools and educational centers, including tech schools and other specialty learning centers, churches, police or government buildings, garden centers, warehousing and storage facilities...and many more

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08/11/2024 11:39 PM

Remember that the installed capacity has to be about 3 times the average over a year. That is, the annual average is about 1/3 of the label capacity. Then there has to be some other method to provide power at night or whenever the sun isn't shining. Similar applies to wind mills.

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