Land Area Required for PV Energy: Difference between revisions

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-https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127
-use would require 500k sq km.
-Area of earth is 500M sq km.
-Area required is only 0.1% of available land area of earth (0.4M vs 196M total square km of earth area shown in the graphic below).
-Cities already cover 3% area. Covering 1/30th of the area of cities with PV generation could provide all the energy. Need to multiply that by 4, since the sun shines 6 hours per day on average.
-[[File:arearequired.jpg|500px]]

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