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I call bullshit. 12 million acres of solar panels could power the whole of the US. We already lease twice that amount to oil and gas and twice that too just gro
by eloff 8y ago
I call bullshit. 12 million acres of solar panels could power the whole of the US. We already lease twice that amount to oil and gas and twice that too just growing corn for ethanol. Solar would actually be a more efficient usage of land than the status quo just in terms of energy production.
- rayiner 8y agoThe competition isn’t oil and gas, it’s fission and fusion.
- pfdietz 8y agoFission and fusion have already lost. As Amory Lovins has pointed out, just the non-nuclear part of a fusion power plant would make it too expensive to compete. The reactor itself would have to cost negative dollars for the whole power plant to be competitive, and that's unlikely. https://www.forbes.com/sites/amorylovins/2014/09/07/fusion-power-the-case-of-the-wrong-competitors/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/amorylovins/2014/09/07/fusion-p...
- eloff 8y agoWhile this seems an unpopular opinion here, it's correct. The economics are such that fission is out of the game, and fusion is out before it even got a chance. Now maybe one day we're using so much land area for solar and wind that it changes the calculus. But at least for this century renewables are going to dominate.