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Wind turbines are surprisingly land-intensive: > Meeting present-day US electricity consumption ... would require 12% of the Continental US land area for wind
by gralx 8y ago
Wind turbines are surprisingly land-intensive:
> Meeting present-day US electricity consumption ... would require 12% of the Continental US land area for wind at 0.5 W_e/m^2, or 1% for solar at 5.4 W_e/m^2.
Source: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae102/meta http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae102/m...
- redblacktree 8y agoOn the other hand, we have a lot of empty, mostly-useless land, like that managed by BLE for grazing. Wind power also lines up well with rural manufacturing decline; since it must be built in rural areas it can replace some of the lost jobs.