jherico t1_ja1my1k wrote
Reply to comment by Dirty_South_Cracka in How Much Land Would It Require To Get Most Of Our Electricity From Wind & Solar? by BlitzOrion
24 million would be a rounding error to any significant new power infrastructure. Coal and nuclear plants cost in the billions to build.
The real issue with building any kind of massive solar installation is getting power to where it's needed. For instance, a massive solar plant in Africa is useless to Europe, because there's no effective way of getting the power there, not in the amounts needed.
ADMIRAL_IMBA t1_ja21hk0 wrote
The political situation is even worse than the efficiency loss. You need constant government and an army to protect such a facility.
jherico t1_ja22jqh wrote
I think there are political issues but I don't think guarding the site is one of them. The site would need to be remote to avoid conflicting with existing land use, and short of using nukes, how much damage could anyone do to a facility spread out over half a million square kilometers?
pinkfootthegoose t1_ja3xj7y wrote
no one is actually saying put all the solar panels in one place. It's just an illustration so people can get their minds around it. We know the panels are going to be on roofs and on parking lots and spread around here and there by various utilities.
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