Memo to Environmentalists: Carbon Production Can Be a Good Thing
@54. Eric:
Quite simply, wind and solar can NEVER be more than minor contributors to our energy portfolio and the sooner we accept this reality the sooner we can move on to real solutions.
Are you really going to pretend that solar generating has to be industrialized, centralized and massive? Here’s a calculation for you – 100 million family homes (or any other building), each with 1,000 square feet of solar roof. 100 billion square feet = 2.3 million acres. Using your calculations from above, that looks like about 210GW of solar generating capacity, on a distributed grid that would be less vulnerable to outage. Why would this not be a major contribution to our energy portfolio?
Tell me again how solar can never be more than a minor contributor…
Peace.
DS
