Here's some rough numbers, hopefully i haven't made any mistakes: Total US energy generation 2021: 4 trillion kwh Average power generation: 457Gw Cost of Top

Here's some rough numbers, hopefully i haven't made any mistakes: Total US energy generation 2021: 4 trillion kwh Average power generation: 457Gw Cost of Topaz solar farm: $2.5bn Potential output: 550 Mw Cost per Mw $4.5m Spend a trillion on similar capacity, you get 220Gw potential output. But that's assuming you get 550Mw average. In fact, it produces about 1282Gwh output a year, so average is more like 145Mw. So at a rough estimate, you need more like 10 trillion to meet US electricity demand. And that assumes you have unlimited battery storage for free. And of course electricity is a small minority of total energy use. Incidentally, I think it's amazing you get to about 10% of total electricity needs with only $1tr, i.e. around 4% of US national output. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz_Solar_Farm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz_Solar_Farm https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us-generation-capacity-and-sales.php https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-... ```python trillion_dollars = 1e12 mw = 550 cost_farm = 2.5e9 cost_dollar_per_mw = cost_farm/mw num_mw = trillion_dollars/cost_dollar_per_mw num_gw = num_mw/1000 num_gw kwh = 4e12 mw = kw/1000 gw = mw/1000 gw ```