http://en.akihabaranews.com/111041/environment/kyocera-ihi-mizuho-corporate-bank-reach-basic-agreement-to-build-operate-70mw-solar-power-plant-in-japan?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kyocera-ihi-mizuho-corporate-bank-reach-basic-agreement-to-build-operate-70mw-solar-power-plant-in-japan Live from Japan ! Sun, 19 May 2013 16:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://en.akihabaranews.com/111041/environment/kyocera-ihi-mizuho-corporate-bank-reach-basic-agreement-to-build-operate-70mw-solar-power-plant-in-japan#comment-93189 Don Corleone Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:03:00 +0000 http://www.akihabaranews.com/?p=111041#comment-93189 Yes, it will.  As development continues, solar will become more efficient and affordable.  With your perspective, we would be doing nothing – and in another 50 years we’d be in a far worse situation than we are now with nothing to show for it.

]]> http://en.akihabaranews.com/111041/environment/kyocera-ihi-mizuho-corporate-bank-reach-basic-agreement-to-build-operate-70mw-solar-power-plant-in-japan#comment-93188 steven kennedy Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:27:00 +0000 http://www.akihabaranews.com/?p=111041#comment-93188 Will this ever  be practical?”The planned site of the solar power plant is approximately 1,270,000m2 (approx. 314 acres) of land . . . will provide the equivalent power for roughly 22,000 average households”
Do the math . . . Tokyo has almost 9 million people. To provide solar power to Tokyo you’d need 1,28,454 acres of land—1/10th of the landmass of Japan.

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