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Originally Posted by Luggage
Actually I believe you might be wrong about your statement about solar cells not being able to run the country. There are many quotes as well as back of the napkin figures that state 100 square miles of solar cells can run the country. What would be needing would be additional distribution wiring as well as immense storage for night time . There is even a famous YouTube clip video of Elon musk talking about this. Of course it would be several billions of dollars and no one is willing to pony up and the fact that you'd have about 2,000 utility commissions that would have to agree to this. Solar cells are an important part of the equation to even off the demand capacity during the day when electricity you use the most for air conditioning
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Don't tell me about "studies". People lie. DO THE MATH YOURSELF. All the info you need is available on line. I just did the math to show you why you can't even run a few basic emergency necessities on solar from the square footage of your own roof. Why do you imagine that we could run a country on solar if you can't even run a single home on it?
100 square miles? Give me a break!
If you're math-challenged, just look out the window next time you fly to the West Coast and observe over "100 square miles" in California alone with your own lyin' eyes. They can't even run California on "100 square miles"!