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Could the U.S. meet its energy needs with solar panels alone?
  • @Amity

    But Pablo is off by a factor of 10; it is 6000 square miles not 600. And that makes his estimate of how much silicon processed into semiconductor material off by the same amount. He is right to have doubts about processing even the smaller amount. What is the environmental impact of processing the larger amount?