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So we do...what? To power the US with solar you would need over 11 million acres of solar panels, and that's likely an extreme lowball estimate. That's half of
by tarboreus 6y ago
So we do...what? To power the US with solar you would need over 11 million acres of solar panels, and that's likely an extreme lowball estimate. That's half of Tennessee. That model doesn't really account for storage and intermittentcy issues, which we need to innovate ourselves out of. Some newer estimates also suggest we'd need more like all of Texas covered in solar panels. Sorry, but there aren't alternatives here. Nuclear is it.