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To: Slagle who wrote (843)	9/26/2005 5:09:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 218644

<The main trouble with anything solar is that even at noon solar radiation is only around 250 W per square foot. And on the vast scale that we (and Brazil too) gobbles up the energy this is just so insignificant. > 10 feet by 10 feet would be 25 kilowatts. Converting only 10% of that would be a useful amount of energy at 2.5 kw. A desert 100km x 100km would be 10,000 km2 = 10,000,000,000 m2. 10bn x 2.5kw = 20bn kilowatts, [or 20 million megawatts]. At 5c per kilowatt hour that's a street price of $1 bn per hour. That's serious money. Australia and parts of the USA, not to mention the Sahara and lots of other places, have a LOT of desert doing nothing except getting hot. Mqurice

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