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Old 05-30-2018, 05:24 PM   #1889 (permalink)
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I think your numbers are off. It will take 0.6% of the US land to power ALL the US:

https://www.good.is/infographics/sol...all-of-america

Here's the estimate to power the WORLD:

Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World With Solar | bLAGI

191,817 square miles - to power all humans on earth. Just from solar.

Wind turbines are now often 8MW each - and they are more efficient the bigger they are.

Nobody is proposing to make hydrogen - that takes at least 3X as much energy.
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