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971: The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing Solar Automation Nick de Vries, Matt Campbell & Frédéric Laure

SunCast by Nico Johnson

Sep 29, 202643:58Science & Medicine

If robotic automation is becoming inevitable in utility-scale solar, where does that thesis run into the realities of actually building a power plant? That's the question behind today’s episode. We start with Nick de Vri...

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