Thursday, July 07th, 2011 | Author: admin
Solar Panels Earth
How much electricity would be generated if the whole surface of the ground was covered with solar panels?
A lot. Treatment the earth as a disc with a diameter of 13,000 km, you get an area of 531 trillion kilometers square and 100 watts per square meter, we would have 53 000 billion watts - about 50,000 times the generating capacity installed in the U.S.. But much of the area is sea, and much of the rest are too far north or south to be useful for generating energy.
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Category: Solar Energy
