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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (834780)2/9/2015 1:42:09 PM
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WR,
I peak at about 1200 or 1250 W.
You have 10 square meters of solar panels. That's a peak of 120W per square meter, or about 15% efficiency (counting the fact that the sun doesn't shine as intensely in San Francisco as it does in, say, Ecuador).

Technology may eventually find a way to increase that efficiency to 20% or even 30%, but that's it. Compare that to a coal-fired power plant, whose capacity is typically on the order of a thousand megawatts (i.e. a gigawatt).

You would need 8.3 million square meters of solar panels to match that generation capacity, and that is PEAK for solar. By the way, that's a square of almost 3 km per side, or the equivalent of 1,190 soccer fields of nothing but solar panels.

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