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un_aristocrate , 9 months ago to worldnews in UK: Road to be shut as power cable for 50MW solar farm installed

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970372 , 9 months ago

Well,

1 Olympic Swimming pool = 50m * 25m according to wikipedia.

That means: 1250m2 per pool. Now multiply this by 1140: 1.425.000m2. Which is 1.425 km2

Franzia , 9 months ago to worldnews in UK: Road to be shut as power cable for 50MW solar farm installed

I just wanna know how fat the cable is. Sounds like it is almost 3km in length.

Fidelity9373 , 9 months ago

Depends on how they're inverting the power. If they're sticking with the DC voltage straight from the panel, that's probably one thick cable. If each panel or group of panels has an inverter to go to high voltage (AC or DC) to a central location, you can proportionally scale the thickness as voltage increases.

Goudewup , 9 months ago to worldnews in UK: Road to be shut as power cable for 50MW solar farm installed

How is a road closure in the UK world news?

lntl OP , 9 months ago

They’re connecting a large solar farm which has a gloabl impact.

exscape , 9 months ago

50 MW global impact? It's about 1/20 of a typical nuclear reactor.

lntl OP , 9 months ago

haha, unfortunately comparisons with this solar farm can only be made in units of “Olympic swimming pools”

gomp , 9 months ago

Absolutely! /s

TBH, the mods should change the sidebar from “News from around the world!” to something like “News that have international relevance”… otherwise we can’t really scold people who post curiosity stories.

greyscale , 9 months ago to worldnews in UK: Road to be shut as power cable for 50MW solar farm installed

why are they measuring solar farms in swimming pools

lntl OP , 9 months ago

I thought the same thing! When posting, I wanted to give a sense of scale and took this screenshot

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d41cccef-a67b-40f6-af77-0c14b6d58bbe.png

Ultimately, I settled on figuring how much of Essex that would cover.

Pons_Aelius , 9 months ago

I settled on figuring how much of Essex that would cover.

which is not that helpful in worldnews...

"for a 114 hectare solar farm east of School Lane"

Now I have an idea of the actual size.

lntl OP , 9 months ago

if ask me to take it down, i will.

Pons_Aelius , 9 months ago

Sorry, that was not my intention at all.

I would much prefer a world-news sub not be filled with the same stories (endless US/UK/EU politics etc) over and over again but rather have some interesting local stories from around the world.

I was just pointing out that adding some more generic descriptions would make it more readable to the rest of the world.

Magrath , 9 months ago

Take it down.

I have spoken!

the_third , 9 months ago

Because Saarlands are not a valid area unit outside of Germany.