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Only 100 square miles of solar panels are required to power the entire United States
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 19367385:MV80MDEwMDY5XzcyNTkyOTcyXzIzRDY5RkY5] Assing you used 300 watt standard units, that would be 3 trillion dollars just for the panels. Any idea of what it would cost to install them puppies? Oh, and what about the batteries? Mounts? Interconnecting wiring? SCADA control system? HVDC power transmission lines to ship the power around the country? What happens when it's cloudy for a week? You would need to keep most of the current power plants still active. It would double our national debt by the time the project was done. [/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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