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Originally Posted by renormalised
The same dept' a few years back calculated that to power the whole of the US with solar technology, it would require a field of panels 1.5 times the size of Texas!!!. I doubt that sort of project would ever be approved. In Oz terms, it's a field of panels 45% the size of Queensland!!!!.
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Those numbers look
way off.
Looking at
USA's electricity consumption and using bojans figures from earlier on in this thread, you can work out that 800 solar farms as calculated by bojan (the equivalent of 800 average nuclear reactors) would supply that amount of energy, which covers an area 40km x 40km (1600 km2). The size of Texas is 696,241 km2