/sci/ - Science & Math

Including fuel for ships, airplanes, and vehicles. This is assuming an efficiency of 8% (it is much higher today).
>Reminder that muh nuclear will never be possible in shitholes like Africa, South America, and India.
>Reminder you can store solar energy as Ammonia by extracting Hydrogen from water through electrolysis.
>Reminder that solar production peak of the day coincides with vehicles parking (and thus recharging) while people are at work.
>Reminder that DC transmission theoretical cost effective limit is 7000 km (more than enough to transfer power from the deserts of Libya to the highlands of Scotland).
>Reminder that any building can install solar cells and offset a significant amount of their electricity use - (in Israel you can sell electricity to the state)
Solar is the FUTURE whether you like it or not.

>>10175374
Actually you need way less area. The world is already going solar. Maybe just not where you live.

>>10087371
perfect is anywhere in the read and orange area, e.g. almost all of California, if we use only a fraction of desert areas we could produce all energy the world will ever need

>>2536213
At 8% efficiency, the area represented by the black spots, if covered with solar arrays, would fulfill the world's energy requirements.