100 Square Miles Of Solar Panels

You only need about 100 miles by 100 miles of solar panels to.

100 square miles of solar panels. Desert into a solar farm that can power the entire nation. Maybe if a 100 x 100 mile area is to big why not reduce the size to four 25 x 25 mile area s. Elon musk is talking again about his idea to turn 10 000 square miles in the u s. Since it takes 21 250 square miles of solar for 4 petawatt hours or 4 000 terawatt hours each terawatt hour takes about 5 3 square miles per terawatt hour.

If you wanted to power the entire united states with solar panels it would take a fairly small corner of nevada or texas or utah. In this article elon musk is quoted to say that the us can be powered by a solar grid shaped as a square in video he says a corner of utah or nevada 100 miles x 100 miles big. Arizona has lots of land that is wasted space. The first would be 100 miles square and filled with solar panels.

You only need about 100 miles by 100 miles of solar panels to power the entire. So very roughly if all us cars and trucks converted to electric vehicles it would take 5 3 square miles x 106 terawatt hours or 562 square miles of solar panels to power them all. 100 miles square as musk pointed out is a fairly small corner of.