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To: Road Walker who wrote (4339)	1/20/2009 1:04:55 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 86356

Offshore Florida is as good for wind as w TX, which we're told by Boone is great. windpoweringamerica.gov

To: Road Walker who wrote (4339)	1/20/2009 1:06:33 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 86356

Let's see how much land Florida would need for solar farms. Consider homes powered by solar farm acre data gotten from these sites: starbulletin.com 96 homes per acre - Lanai treehugger.com 81 homes per acre - Spain ecofuss.com 37 homes per acre - AZ Why is AZ so low? Probably a/c needs. Spain and Lanai probably need little or no a/c or heat. Figuring Florida definitely needs a/c, lets assume 37 homes need an acre of solar farm. 16M people, assume 2.5 per household (maybe high given the number of elderly), that means 173K acres needed or 270 square miles. Should be no problem. I am sure greens will welcome 270 square miles of solar farms in Florida. This is only based on powering current home needs. If we convert all the cars in FL to electric, a lot more area will be needed for solar farms. Also the above doesn't consider what will be needed to store power. When hurricanes go through, I don't think all Floridians will want to be w/o all power till the sun comes out again.