Comments on: My Brain Hurts — Solar Powered Oil Fields are Coming http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/23/my-brain-hurts-solar-powered-oil-fields-are-coming/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/23/my-brain-hurts-solar-powered-oil-fields-are-coming/#comment-9094 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:49:02 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=7578#comment-9094 At first it seemed like so many panels (7,000) for so little power (740 KW), but I see in the link below that nearly all of the companies being tested are thin film (which I’ve heard, takes more to make the same power) but I am surprised that it is so many modules.

For example I once did an estmate for about 100 KW on rooftops and it took 600 175 W panels.

So about 7 times that (740 KW) should only take about 7 X 600 = 4200 panels, ballpark. So thin film seems to use about twice as many panels…? Is that right?

http://earth2tech.com/2010/03/22/project-brightfield-chevron-launches-solar-test-bed/

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/23/my-brain-hurts-solar-powered-oil-fields-are-coming/#comment-26409 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:49:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=7578#comment-26409 At first it seemed like so many panels (7,000) for so little power (740 KW), but I see in the link below that nearly all of the companies being tested are thin film (which I’ve heard, takes more to make the same power) but I am surprised that it is so many modules.

For example I once did an estmate for about 100 KW on rooftops and it took 600 175 W panels.

So about 7 times that (740 KW) should only take about 7 X 600 = 4200 panels, ballpark. So thin film seems to use about twice as many panels…? Is that right?

http://earth2tech.com/2010/03/22/project-brightfield-chevron-launches-solar-test-bed/

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