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All land doesn't receive the same quality or quantity of sunlight.
by ImprovedSilence 8y ago
All land doesn't receive the same quality or quantity of sunlight.
- robocat 8y agoSo choose land that is poor for food production and good for electricity production, then find a way to transport the energy (one good advantage of gas/coal/oil is transportability with current infrastructure).
- jws 8y agoThat is the 3.0 insolation I chose. It’s reasonably representative of areas of northern hemisphere cities. The United States average by population is probably between 4 and 5 according to this map, but winter is lower and you have to plan for that. https://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/eere_pv/national_photovoltaic_2012-01.jpg https://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/eere_pv/national_photovoltai... Here is a map of the world… https://globalsolaratlas.info/downloads/world https://globalsolaratlas.info/downloads/world Northern Europeans are going to want to have some power lines to the south. Chile might be the new aluminum refining capital of the world. Africa would be energy rich.
- pfdietz 8y agoI sometimes wonder if some of the resistance to a solar-powered world stems from their discomfort with the implied economic shift of heavy industry to brown-skinned countries.