There’s an idea floating in the ether (or at least in my ether) that there’s enough sunny federal land in Nevada to power the entire United States with solar.
Some very rough back-of-the-envelope math suggests it’s possible, requiring just over 11% of Nevada’s federal land. None of that includes room for batteries for storage or the massive transmission wires needed to export it all — both of which would expand the footprint significantly — and a concentrated installation like that wouldn’t be very resilient or ecologically sound.The point is, there’s room to spare! The federal government owns plenty of land in other sunny and windy places, not just Nevada.
TechCrunch on Guff House - link - Tim De Chant - link - more like this (solar) - link
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