AzScorpion
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I'm full aware of what point he was trying to make that it doesn't take all that much area to power the whole US. Even it that were true it would never work. You'd have to these areas all over the US or getting it there would be way to costly from one area. Now factor in that AZ gets 300+ days of sunshine/year and not many other states do. Heat is a big factor as you don't get as much production from a panel on hot days. For my house April and May are the top producing months. You'd need double or triple the land in the PNW or NE for these "solar farms". Florida wouldn't work so well as there's to many hurricanes and tornados. The N'East, I've lived there where you don't see the sun for weeks. Sure there would be storage but we haven't even perfected that for rooftop solar yet.
After that all panels degrade over time so take that into account and you need to add even more to keep that areas grid going. What happens when an area sees a massive building boom like we're having here? I'm not talking a couple thousand people but my city alone has almost doubled in the 6 years I've lived here to 80,000+. It's not so easy as with Nuke to just fire up up and produce more power when you need it.
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