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Crazy if this is true. :shock:
Crazy if this is true. :shock:
Problems With Solar Energy
IMO, it would be far more efficient to do every roof in solar tiles. However that too is expensive
Here's the Big Problem With Tesla's New Solar Roof | The Fiscal Times
Crazy if this is true. :shock:
Yep, ignore storage and ditsribution (those pesky details) and the plan makes perfect sense. Quick - send me cash and we can do this.
Crazy if this is true. :shock:
see post #3
see post #3
The other thing is the transport of power, whuch is also expensive and underlies 'Not in my Backyard' friction and litigation.
We only have to solve a few wrinkles.
But that's the point. The issue of feeding the entire country from those three seemingly small (actually quite large IRL) areas, would be an insurmountable problem.
That video is waaaaaay over simplistic BTW.
The transport of power is not an issue. The USofA has and uses power lines for electricity. The infrastructure is already there.
As for the "wrinkles" - yes, there is still quite a few of those.
I don't think the idea is for using ONLY three "small" areas.
You're missing the point.
Of course it's over simplified. There's a purpose to doing that.
Oh, I'm not suggesting there isn't huge issues with solar still.
Just dumb-founded at how little space relative to the entire country we'd need.
The transport of power is not an issue. The USofA has and uses power lines for electricity. The infrastructure is already there.
As for the "wrinkles" - yes, there is still quite a few of those.
Problems With Solar Energy
IMO, it would be far more efficient to do every roof in solar tiles. However that too is expensive
Here's the Big Problem With Tesla's New Solar Roof | The Fiscal Times
The transport of power is not an issue. The USofA has and uses power lines for electricity. The infrastructure is already there.
As for the "wrinkles" - yes, there is still quite a few of those.
Nope, electical power transmission over vast distances is a big issue. There are no super-duper transmission lines from the US southwest to the US northeast for very good reasons.
Lost In Transmission: How Much Electricity Disappears Between A Power Plant And Your Plug? | Inside Energy
NOBODY is insisting that the entire USofA be powered only, and solely, from those three places in the southwest. :roll:
Stop being so damned literal about this.
There's no reason small solar fields can't be built all over the damned country.
The point of that graphic was to show that we don't need to blot out the sun from 75% of all living creatures on planet earth just to power New York City.
NOBODY is insisting that the entire USofA be powered only, and solely, from those three places in the southwest. :roll:
Stop being so damned literal about this.
There's no reason small solar fields can't be built all over the damned country.
The point of that graphic was to show that we don't need to blot out the sun from 75% of all living creatures on planet earth just to power New York City.
AFAIK, space was never an issue - we have plenty of desert.
Correct, the cost benefit ratio favors adding better insulation and windows to a home over adding solar panels, by a long shot.Quoting some thinker ahead of his time....there is nothing new under the sun.
About 3 decades ago I took an evening college class titled "alternate energy technology". It covered all the sources from bunker oil and high sulphur coal to solar and nuclear. After we studied all of them and compared costs from digging to using of the various sources of energy and made up charts showing the more likely choices to be used to cover our current and future needs based on projected demand. Then the professor added an additional factor not considered up to that point in time. He asked us to consider replacing just a small percent of our incandescent lighting to fluorescent. LED lighting wasn't available yet....
Long story short, instead of having to ADD more power plants, X amount per year, we found that we could SHUT DOWN a large number of our dirtiest coal plants.
We can juggle the numbers however we want, finding ways to use LESS energy must be a major factor from now on, if not THE major factor.