| JEMC said: But over how many years? 20? 30? And don't forget that the more it is used, the cheaper it will become, plus you can also sell the rights to market the electricity produced by them in advance. |
And there is the problem. 10 years alone is massive from a technological standpoint. Those panels will already be outdated by the time they finish 10% of the work.
The price for these will first go down and then up rapidly after we exhausted our rare earths to build the technology. Roads will be destroyed and pilfered for materials.
Then there are the insurmountable maintenance costs. Someone has to keep those panels clean around the clock or you can already forget the solar panels in them. If they're damaged they will need to be replaced. The networks have to be maintenanced as well. Not only the cost to build network infrastructure for thesee things will be gigantic but someone will have to develop, update and maintain the management programs.
Costs alone for security will be gigantic. Lives are on the line with these things so they're extremely sensitive applications. To build and maintain network security will take a lot of effort. But it will probably not stop attackers from abusing them.
It sounds all well but you can see that these things were developed by an engineer rather than an informatician.
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