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Only 100 square miles of solar panels are required to power the entire United States
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only.
only 10000 square miles
only 1 million 593 thousand panels per square mile
only 15 billion 593 panels required
At only 800 per panel including panel / inverter / assembly, it would only cost about 12 trillion 744 billion.
only about 38000 per person
only about 144 000 for a family of 4
Not including the batteries, or tying into distribution.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57933017 forgot to add residential share at 132 million user with average bill of 112 and usage of 850 kwh = 28 panels worth or only 24% ( rest is used by city / government / businesses ) which would all download cost to customer / citizen. But ignoring that, the cost to finance per household would be: only 3 trillion / 132 million users or: 23000 per person with a finance cost over 30 years to save would only be $116. So assuming somehow businesses would not download costs to consumers and assuming somehow governments woudl not download costs to taxpayers, in 30 short years, this would pay for itself. How do you get 850Kwh = 28 panels... I have a solar system at my home. 1 panel generates 100 Watts per hour. At 10 hours that would be 1Kwh per panel. So that would mean 28Kwh for 28 panels. Even if you had a more powerful array of panels that gave you 200 Watts per panel, you'd still have only 56Kwh from the array and not 850Kwh...
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