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Could the U.S. meet its energy needs with solar panels alone?
  • 100 by 100 miles

    americanenergyindependence.com mentions the 100 by 100 mile area:

    If the sunshine radiating on the surface of an area 100 miles wide by 100 miles long would provide all of the electricity that America needs, every day, why would Americans hesitate to use it?

    That is 10,000 square miles. Allowing for some useless land, etc. one really needs maybe 6000 square miles of good land. That is a lot more than 600. Please fix the mistake in the article. It is not right to mislead people about how easy it is to do something.