Baja Carport under construction above a U-Haul Corp RV Canopy in AZ, built by Sunfinity
Everybody has that one argument, one point, one opinion, the thing that nobody is asking about, but it consumes you. It’s not unhealthy, it’s just so unrealistic that you harp on it, because if it ever did happen you’d get to say “I told you so,” and there’s absolutely no phrase more satisfying.
For this writer, it’s allowing NFL players to participate in Olympic Rugby, so that the U.S. could dominate for gold every four years, for Elon Musk, it’s converting 100 square miles of the Arizona desert into a solar project with enough capacity to power the country. It’s an old argument of Musk’s, but one he brings up frequently.
It’s also an argument that, as ludicrous as it sounds and logistically flawed as it is, is technically possible – the best kind of possible. Musk’s supermassive solar project would require a patch of land measuring 10,000 square miles, with an accompanying battery in the one square […]
If you covered enough lakes and ponds with PV’s to generate most of our electric needs, what would be the impact to all the fowl that depend on these for their survival.
Isn’t there enough wasted urban land-space to place solar cells on? The tops of buildings, on top of parking lots, etc. Surely that would easily cover 10,000 sq km.