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Imagine if the whole United States had the geography of Nevada, and you'll see how attractive solar is to Australia.
by microcolonel 6y ago
Imagine if the whole United States had the geography of Nevada, and you'll see how attractive solar is to Australia.
- dylan604 6y agoI'd be willing to give up Vegas to turn Nevada into a giant solar farm.
- nitrogen 6y agoVegas is tiny compared to Nevada. You can have both. Nevada has lots of rocky terrain and winter snows, though, so much wouldn't be usable.
- jeffbee 6y agoThe electrical power of the entire USA could be supplied by a PV station much smaller than Nevada. In the desert southwest you can average 6 kW-h/day/m^2 over a full year. Nation consumes approximately 4.2 PW-h/year. Therefore you need about 2 billion square meters of PV panels (2E9 x 6E3 x 365.25 =~ 4.4E15). That's an area of only 45 km per side (45000 x 45000 > 2E9). Nevada is about 500km wide and has an area of almost 300 billion square meters. So you'd need about 1% of Nevada to power the whole country.
- lostlogin 6y agoOne decent hailstorm or other extreme weather event would have quite the impact.