Forgot the Nuclear plant was making 8 times the power of Topaz solar so the land use of a comparable solar farm would be 200km^2
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Solar and wind are just not realistically dense enough. People just do not take into consideration the immense amount of power being consumed. 2.7 TeraWatt continuous electric. 17 TeraWatt continuous total energy.
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600,000 km^2 in the optimum sunniest locations plus storage covered with solar panels to replace just the electricity of what we are using right now. multiply that times 6 to replace all energy. And double that every 70 years for 2% growth.
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