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Only 100 square miles of solar panels are required to power the entire United States, page 1
If you wanted to power the entire United States with solar panels, it would take a fairly small corner of Nevada or Texas or Utah; you only need about 100 miles by 100 miles of solar panels to power the entire United States,
The batteries you need to store the energy, so you have 24/7 power, is 1 mile by 1 mile. One square-mile.
It’s a little square on the U.S. map, and then there’s a little pixel inside there, and that’s the size of the battery park that you need to support that. Real tiny.
If you wanted to power the entire United States with solar panels, it would take a fairly small corner of Nevada or Texas or Utah; you only need about 100 miles by 100 miles of solar panels to power the entire United States,
The batteries you need to store the energy, so you have 24/7 power, is 1 mile by 1 mile. One square-mile.
It’s a little square on the U.S. map, and then there’s a little pixel inside there, and that’s the size of the battery park that you need to support that. Real tiny.