From a distance, on the other hand, the Coke Tower looms large in splendid solitude without even its former power plant still standing to give it some scale and context.

另一方面，隔开一段距离，这座可口可乐塔在壮观的荒地中赫然耸立，甚至抽离了它先前发电站的给予它的规模和情境。

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In the right climate, both can be deployed at "utility scale," meaning that if it's breezy or sunny enough, a wind or solar farm can produce as much power as a coal-fired plant.

在气候适宜的时候，这两者都可以达到“实用水平”。也就是说，如果有风或者是太阳足够好的话，一个风能或者太阳能发电厂可以达到一个煤电厂的发电水平。

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Grid-scale batteries would boost efficiency by allowing solar energy to be used at night, for example, or excess power from a nuclear plant to be stored for later.

电网级电池将大大提高能效，比如允许存贮太阳能用于在夜间，或者存储一个核电厂在夜间发出过多的电，以供白天使用。

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"For the very first time, a large-scale solar power plant, the largest of its kind in the entire nation, will deliver electricity produced by the sun to the citizens of the Sunshine State.

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They frequently depend on venture-capital funds which are dwarfed by the cost of even a single utility-scale power plant.

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And now, for the very first time, a large-scale solar power plant -- the largest of its kind in the entire nation -- will deliver electricity produced by the sun to the citizens of the Sunshine State.

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An interview published last year in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists detailed how at age 88, he was working on a new approach to photovoltaic thin-film production that he said would allow factories to make enough solar panels in a year to produce at least one gigawatt of electricity annually roughly the scale of a nuclear power plant at the price of coal.

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