gandalf_der_12te ,

According to my calculations, 22M acres is about 20 000 TWh/year of solar power, or about 12% of the world's energy consumption.

700 000 acres is about 0.4% of the world's energy consumption.

mosiacmango ,

Nice. One move that powers half a percent of the earth. Thats a huge boon.

If each country did the same, that would be roughly 50% of all earths power demands for the cost of 700,000 acres each. Many countries can't spare 700k acres, but a concerted effort would likely yield at least 30% of all power demands. Im glad the US is making this move.

Kecessa ,

But it will be used locally so what % of the US energy usage is it?

YerbaYerba ,

US total production is roughly 4000TWh per year. 20% is already renewables and another 18% is nuclear.

Kecessa ,

So an extra ~630TWh of solar which is about 15% of the current total.

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