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Originally Posted by cfg83
I think the "covering NV in PV" argument is also specious. I think it is mostly mentioned because the square footage of the state roughly matches the energy requirements of 100% PV use in the USA (at 15% efficient?). You can argue that it is because of the amount of desert that NV has, but CA, AZ, and NM also have a lot of desert, so maybe they can give up some land too.
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You're missing the point. The argument is not specious, it is exactly what the concentrated solar developers want to do. Sure, it wouldn't be the whole state of Nevada covered end-to-end, but it would be the same area spread out over southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and other states. (And see how easy that was? Didn't hurt a bit to use the real names, now did it?) We don't have enough open space left in this world that anyone should think it acceptable to pave & cover large chunks of it.