Really? Doubts?
It will power 140,000 homes, right? Except for the 67% of the time when the sun doesn’t shine or shine brightly enough.
And given 132,452,405 housing units in the U.S., it’d take only about 1,000 more of these 33% efficient plants covering 5,000 square miles of the U.S. at a cost of only two trillion dollars. All in all, quite doable. IF you are a “Progressive” who graduated in Lesbian Dance Theory and believe in the economic and scientific nature of Unicorn and Rainbow power.
I would like to see more in city off the power grid alternatives.
Solar in city to reduce power bills.
Calculating from the rated output of 392 MW, assuming 33% availability (and assuming that energy storage is “free”) and comparing it to the US comsumption of 3,886,400,000 MWHr (in 2010) it would take a mere 3400 hundred such plants, covering 17,000 square miles. Not counting storage and attendant losses, including transmission losses.
Only two trillion? That’s easy. We’re something close to 18 $ trillion in debt now. What’s a couple $ trillion more?
Hey, you’re quite good at figurin’ all that stuff out. You do that all by yourself?
Are there night courses available?