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Solar energy
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Q: “The US, in particular, could not with current technology produce enough energy through solar means to power the country to its current level even if we papered every single square inch in solar cells.”
A:
- Sharp NT-R5E1U size / capacity: 14 sq feet, 175 watts.
- Capacity of a square mile of NT-R5E1U's (no link, use a calculator): 350 megawatts
- Capacity of, say, Delaware covered in NT-R5E1U's: 868 gigawatts
- US power grid capacity: 776 gigawatts
IE, you'd need less than 1% of Texas using off-the-shelf solar cells to equal the power generating capacity of the entire US grid.
vertical multijunction (VMJ) cell http://wire0.ises.org/wire/glossary.nsf/H/O?Open&00005F7E
from; http://blog.modernmechanix.com/
related: Renewable Energy / / Category Energy