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Let's kill this meme
Why we gotta knock solar? |
John McGrath |
05 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Can we please, once and for all, stop decrying solar energy for being too area-intensive? See, for example, the oft-cited statistic that to power its economy, the U.S. would need "10 billion meters, squared, of land." America isn't exactly short on square meters, and awfully sunny ones at that. But 10 billion square meters sounds a lot bigger than it really is. 10,000 square kilometers (100km x 100km) form a square you could drive around entirely, at legal ... |
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| Topics: energy, hydropower, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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