tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post6642718043201851623..comments2023-08-24T07:27:12.657-07:00Comments on Contra O'Reilly: On the California Valley Solar Ranch/Power Plant Will "take no prisoners" Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02315659209094683602noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-53936531966136603922015-03-04T05:33:18.854-08:002015-03-04T05:33:18.854-08:00Will, am I doing my math right? 2 million of these...Will, am I doing my math right? 2 million of these would end up being 4,687,500 square miles.<br /><br />Now, the US is <a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/area.shtml" rel="nofollow">3,794,083</a> square miles. <br /><br />Again, correct me if I did this wrong. but my wild guess about wind farms the size of Asia weren't too far off: the requirement for <b>this is larger than the area of the US.</b><br /><br />To clear the land for it would require mass depopulation of territory unseen in human history. And the impact on the environment: remember the one in California pretty much erases birds.<br /><br />Not sure how you would clear such an area to take care of energy needs. WD's hero Stalin probably would have a lot of ideas on how to do this.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-58649984420097204072015-03-03T20:42:02.112-08:002015-03-03T20:42:02.112-08:00Roger Pielke is a rare fellow in that he seems to ...Roger Pielke is a rare fellow in that he seems to be well respected on both sides of this whole climate debate, and Pielke HAS crunched the numbers. According to him, in order for the world to reduce its carbon footprint by 50% by 2050 (and please, keep in mind here that guys like Obama and Gore want to reduce it by 80%!!), we would have to totally eliminate coal and natural gas, reduce our oil usage by 40% and in order to compensate this we would have to build 2,000,000 of these solar farms - the cost of which, dmarks, I wouldn't even hazard a guess at this point.Will "take no prisoners" Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02315659209094683602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-25738344058557731032015-03-03T20:41:37.975-08:002015-03-03T20:41:37.975-08:00Could be true, BB.
Either that, or the US doesn&#...Could be true, BB.<br /><br />Either that, or the US doesn't hold a tight monopoly on bad ideas.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-69006978679168166272015-03-03T14:50:05.964-08:002015-03-03T14:50:05.964-08:00With India and China building lots of those arrays...With India and China building lots of those arrays, there must<br />be some positives?BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-56805292702936893362015-03-02T21:07:16.774-08:002015-03-02T21:07:16.774-08:00Has anyone done the math....
like if we went to th...Has anyone done the math....<br />like if we went to this type of thing for ALL of the nations needs, we'd need an electric farm the size of Asia and have to spend $300 trillion to make it? That is a guess, but it is probably not too far off from the truth.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.com