Can you please explain to me why the physics don't add up. Feel free to use complex numbers. I am literate.
Power consumption per capita in 2009 for Germany was about 6,700 kwh per year.
Population of Germany: about 82,000,000.
Available power per square foot from solar power is about 20 kWh per year.
Do the math: 82,000,000 times 6,700 = about 550 billion kWh. So to produce 50% of that demand would take solar cells covering an area of 26 million square feet. Delaware is about half a billion square feet, so I was off there - I'll accept the hit on the hyperbole. But 26,000,000 square feet is HUGE.
That's the problem with you green types: basic math.
Ooops, I dropped the 50%: “ONLY” 13 MILLION or so square feet...