Sorry to say, but that doesn't work. 1 hectare/Mwh, abstract over any issues. What happens when renewables actually achieve what they set out to do: what happen

Sorry to say, but that doesn't work. 1 hectare/Mwh, abstract over any issues. What happens when renewables actually achieve what they set out to do: what happens when PV gets used for 50% of power ? What happens when it's at 80% ? 1 hectare/Mwh = 1e-5 km2/kwh 1e-5 km2/kwh * 450 billion kwh / 650000 km2 = 7 times the area of France Obviously this is not practical. At 10% you'd have to destroy significant amounts of the remaining nature in France. God help Belgium and the Netherlands should they try this, so France is definitely not a worst case scenario. You'd have to get the power from Africa. Yes, the US could (just barely, and only with a much bigger electricity grid). Russia could. China is actually dicey (at 7% growth per year it won't stay dicey for long and dive into "not happening" soon). Not many others. Also: at any scale solar PV will displace so much nature it will be worse for the planet than fossil fuels. At 1% ? No problem. But at 1%, fossil fuels aren't a problem either. At 1%, coal would be tolerable. At 100% ? Nuclear works. Alternatives ... uh ... None (I mean, there's fusion when it starts working) Simcity was right. https://www.worlddata.info/europe/france/energy-consumption.php https://www.worlddata.info/europe/france/energy-consumption.... https://www.google.com/search?q=france+area https://www.google.com/search?q=france+area