Solar Panels on Every Roof

Basics

• This page aims to determine the impact if all of the roofs in an area were covered in Solar Panels , both by digging for existant research, and some napkin math (maybe even GIS work?)
• Do the math for Photovoltaic , Solar Thermal Panels , and Hybrid Solar Panels maybe? (PV is easiets)
• Also do the math at different scales, street, neighborhood, county, nationwide
• Also may want to add in to the analysis
  • Cost / Time to Breakeven
  • Impacts of Different Grid Setups (per-house Off-Grid , Semi- Decentralized Grid , as well as pricing/incentives ( Smart Grid stuff) , Supergrid (ie could the "staggering" help) )
    • Granted this can become a page in of itself!

External Links

• An Article by ARS Technica Titled "A solar panel on every roof in the US? Here are the numbers"