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Only 100 square miles of solar panels are required to power the entire United States
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[quote:Achduke7:MV80MDEwMDY5XzcyNjA2MTIwX0JBNUFEQ0Ew] [quote:WaitTressSandwhich:MV80MDEwMDY5XzcyNjAyOTg2XzI4QTc1N0Yw] [quote:WaitTressSandwhich:MV80MDEwMDY5XzcyNjAyOTUyXzlBNjRFREE0] It won't work....just go 4:02 of the video [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3awdlK-7WQM[/youtube] [/quote] And just so you know...4000 acres is 6.25 sq miles. A 4,000 acre solar array won't even power the NY subway system! [/quote] Given the U.S. consumes about 4 petawatts of electricity per year, we'd need about 13,600,000 acres or 21,250 square miles of solar panels to meet the total electricity requirements of the United States for a year. The yellow square is approximately 21,000 square miles. From https://www.freeingenergy.com/how-much-solar-would-it-take-to-power-the-u-s/ Other older sites quote 16,000 square miles. This is only considering electricity. If we converted all energy the US uses it comes to about 100 Quadrillion BTUs/year. 1,000,000,000 BTU/hr is around 293,071,070 Watts As for the NY subway. The power required to operate the subway system during peak hours is about 495,900 kilowatts or about .5 GW/hr. https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Subway_FAQ:_Facts_and_Figures From https://www.quora.com/How-much-land-is-required-to-setup-a-1GW-solar-power-generation-unit A 1 GW capacity would require 4x1000 = 4,000 acres. This would be around 6.25 sq. miles of space. I think 6.25 sq miles is enough power to run the NY subway at peak hours which comes comes in at .5 GigaWatts for at least for 12 hours if we consider 6 solar hours in the western desert. [/quote]
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“If you wanted to power the entire United States with solar panels, it would take a fairly small corner of Nevada or Texas or Utah; you only need about 100 miles by 100 miles of solar panels to power the entire United States,”
“The batteries you need to store the energy, so you have 24/7 power, is 1 mile by 1 mile. One square-mile.”
It’s “a little square on the U.S. map, and then there’s a little pixel inside there, and that’s the size of the battery park that you need to support that. Real tiny.”
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If this were spread over the United States connected by a power grid sounds doable and not very intrusive, the panels also being on top of building roofs.. What we waiting for?
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