Only 100 square miles of solar panels are required to power the entire United States

Hoover dam????

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Self Reliance is kryptonite to the ZioUsupers that have taken over the world.

Plastics.

I read that the manufacturing of solar panels has a negative impact on the environment. [link to news.nationalgeographic.com (secure)]

Fabricating the panels requires caustic chemicals such as sodium hydroxide and hydrofluoric acid, and the process uses water as well as electricity, the production of which emits greenhouse gases. It also creates waste. These problems could undercut solar's ability to fight climate change and reduce environmental toxics. [link to news.nationalgeographic.com (secure)]


I was just getting that link. Great minds think alike. Lol

Are fuel is not from fossils stupid.endless supply.

The US uses 3,910,000,000,000 KwH per year of electricity. That’s 3 trillion for the dipshit leftists here. Solar panels run about 1,000 per KW. Only harnessing that energy for 1/3 of the time the sun is out. Then with inefficiencies it goes even lower. Let’s just use leftist logic and only get just what we think we need, which is actually just one quarter of what is needed.

$1,000 per KW of solar energy probably needs about a 1/1 ratio with inneficiencies in delivery of power, downed panels requiring maintenance, dust on the panels, loss of efficiency over time. So...

$1,000 x 3,910,000,000,000 equals a cost of $3,910,000,000,000,000 that’s 4 quadrillion dollars and we’ve only got panels. No labor to install them, stands, constant cleaning of dust, batteries, inverters, wiring or delivery. Panels are also basically dead after 20 years and half capacity after 10.


Now lets do batteries, it’s probably the same $1,000 for batteries per KW, except vased on usage you’d need much more. For shits and giggles though let’s just say we only need $1,000 per KW of batteries... we’re now at

$7,820,000,000,000,000 just for half of what we probably need and no wiring, labor, inverters....



That’s 8 quadrillion dollars... in a world that doesn’t even have 250 trillion in actual money.

You can always tell the dipshit leftist. They’re the one who doesn’t understand any math and science and think there emotions and name calling can make the impossible possible.

The whole world uses 22 trillion KwH so just buying the panels and batteries would put us at 22 trillion x $2,000 or

$44,000,000,000,000,000

That’s 44 quadrillion dollars for the dipshit leftists.

But that would hurt the migratory patterns of the Gay One Eyed Newt Toad!

Better than a nuclear power plant.

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This has been a paid message from knuckle dragging liberals incapable of learning from facts.

Dear Moran,

Ever hear of something called HYDRO Electric Power?

It is the TOP producer of electricity in the US

It is 100% clean.

Solar panels are created from toxic materials and do not last forever.

Solar panels are not 'clean' but are branded this way because they are thought to be 'carbon neutral'

Why dont you check out the toxic wastelands in China which are a product of solar panel production.

Dumb

Like Oroville Dam, lol

Or maybe we should use less electricity. Buy less junk.

Cut our demand and our energy solution options grow. Certain alternatives become more reasonable.

No hard feelings, just saying.

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.

Solar has some potential and use, but I think the power to change the world may lay in compact fusion tech. If they don't have it already, they are close.

No, we need more power for Bitcoin "mining".

New tech may be more efficient but does not scale. Older tech which already has the manufacturering in place does scale. I like wind and solar collectors mass produced to be already assembled in a factories and then point a steam driven tower and steam generator to produce electricity.

There was a company that I do not remember the name of that was making solar concentrator shipping container sized that when deployed would use GPS to find the tower and angle the sun collector at the tower and power a regular steam turbine. 100s of containers would be mass produced and delivered onsite and then automatically work with little set up. No solar panels involved.

It should be done, and added to the current grid, let the free market decide.

We built and tested an array of 16 3x4 panels and they barely produced enough power for an avg house. 27,878,400 Square Feet per sq. mi. / 192 sq. ft per solar array = power for 139392 avg. size home. These were extremely efficient modules approaching combined heat and power output of 75%.
Anyways just my 2bits worth.
GreyMatter

*Our* fuel comes from some type of organism breaking down. Do you think the earth just creates it without some process or system? It takes energy to extract carbon and hydrogen to create petros. Organisms are capable of handling this process.

That's about 25 billion one metre square solar panels (25,000,000,000).

I am a conservative and have an engineering degree and have worked on nuclear power plants. I am a proponent of solar and nuclear, fusion ideally.
What immediately rankles us conservatives is that the legislation that intends on improving energy generation inevitably has some collectivist solution inserted into the text. Either fix this s**** or don’t,don’t include political stuff into an engineering problem.

Example [link to www.congress.gov (secure)]

Up to section 1 part 2. This addresses environmental concerns, after that it’s about collectivism.

Public utilities are secure long term investments, Illuminatis banksters are milking us with hazardous nuke plants spread all over high population density regions.

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Thank you for the new math rules!

Old math:

10 miles x 10 miles = 100 square miles

100 miles x 100 miles = 10,000 square miles

yeah "only 100 square miles" has to come from a high school dropout

Dude if this was true and feasible it would have been done decades ago.

But deserts are so valuable. How dare anyone suggest totally worthless real estate have a purpose that would benefit the country. Don't you get it?! The unseen are trying to destroy the country, not help it.

There's no reason to do it. The US has abundant energy sources. Its just the latest libtard panacea so they can fell good about themselves, regardless of the consequences. real world consequences don't matter to them. Only good intentions matter.

Check Cadmium leaking from cheaper panels

I suppose the more expensive Cadmium panels will leak less

If it is not a crystalline sillicium panel. it will probably ruin the soil and you will be eating Cadmium for generations