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The US is putting enough solar to power 70,000 homes on old nuclear weapons sites (electrek.co)

submitted 5 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/energy

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why are they putting 70,000 homes on old nuclear weapons sites?! \s

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the old Lemmy switcharoo.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Hold my Geiger counter, I'm going in!

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social -1 points 2 months ago

The 70000 homes, are already there on the Nuclear Weapons sites.
Gov just realised, the homes needed more power than what the nuclear weapons gave them.

[–] MercurySunrise 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Finally. Jesus fucking christ, took them long enough to do something useful with these sites.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I was gonna say, these places are 1/40th of a pixel on the map, but those are some sizeable acreages! Pleasant surprise.

And think of the cost savings on maintaining all that land.