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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: slacker711 who wrote (62920)5/2/2008 2:29:13 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 541990
 
Assuming that solar plants can scale linearly, that would mean that we would need a piece of land about 60 miles by 60 miles to replace all of the countries coal production. That isnt nearly as bad as I would have figured.

Its also not as bad as the other estimates I've read. But even if its right, remember its not just 60 miles by 60 miles of land, but 3600 square miles of power plants. That's an awful lot of equipment to build and maintain. Think of a power plant (or really a collection of plants) 16 times the size of Chicago.
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