"Surface Area Required to Power the World With Solar Panels Alone"

Of course the signifcant costs and other problems of distribution are not discussed or depicted.

But it's still rather amazing.

Comments

[JorgXMcKie]

Great. Now all we need is a map of the infrastructure to carry the power and to hold it and distribute it when the sun isn't shining.

Also, I'd like a map of the area it would take with nukes.

;->=

[Jack]

What did you find amazing about this? Is it that solar takes a lot of area or not much?

I did find the graphic interesting and assume your amazement is at how little space would be required to power the world, but since you are usually fairly conservative, I'm not sure.