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About 0.5% of the US needs to be covered in solar panels to meet the US's current energy requirements (about the size of the Mojave desert). About the size of
by nippoo 6y ago
About 0.5% of the US needs to be covered in solar panels to meet the US's current energy requirements (about the size of the Mojave desert).
About the size of New Mexico needs to be covered to meet the whole world's energy consumption.
In the grand scale of things, and considering how much sunny, arid desert land there is in the world (and without even thinking of floating solar farms) that's really not a lot...
- theodric 6y agoIt also needs to be sunny 24 hours a day. Solar requires storage. Batteries are non-renewable.
- EricE 6y agoYes, it's beyond annoying how the biggest intermittency - nighttime - is hand waved off by solar advocates.
- epistasis 6y ago> Batteries are non-renewable. In what sense do you mean this? As we gain a critical mass of batteries at end of life, we are now able to start recycling them: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/batteries-storage/lithiumion-battery-recycling-finally-takes-off-in-north-america-and-europe https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/batteries-storage/lithiumio...