Right. One location to shut down an entire nation’s electric power.
It’ll take another thousand square miles for the back-up generators and diesel fuel storage. Brilliant!
Right. One location to shut down an entire nation’s electric power.
...
Musk was making a point that would be easy understand. He’d much rather those panels be distributed on people’s roofs.
It’ll take another thousand square miles for the back-up generators and diesel fuel storage. Brilliant!
They can split it up into 4 places so if 1 or 2 of the solar places shut down, there is still 2 other backup places intact
It’ll take another thousand square miles for the back-up generators and diesel fuel storage. Brilliant!
Get a clue. Engineers do this all the time when thinking about the feasibility of a project.
It was just a calculation of the area required, not a proposal to build it all in one place. IF it is ever built, it would be distributed over a large number of sites. Just the transmission lines from one central location would be huge and impractical.
If the result had been a 1000 mile square we would give it up as completely impractical, but the total area easily fits into the US. Of course it would be distributed, but the relatively small size of the total area is encouraging.
Neat thing is it’s easily distributed from centralized square, all the way to individual citizens. 0.1 acre and you’re off the grid.
It would make absolutely no sense to put it all in one place. A few decent size bombs and the country is gone.