To power 100,000 homes for 1 hour, requires 50,000 tons of solar panels requiring the space of about 3000 AFL fields and that’s all it takes when the sun is shining. If you need electricity in the evening, then you need energy stored in batteries. For one hour’s supply of electrical energy for that number of homes would require energy to be stored in batteries with the storage capacity of 50 Tesla batteries which take up about two basketball courts in area. To charge these batteries would require solar panels covering an area the size of another 600 AFL fields for every night hour of electrical energy. That is, what is required is adding another 600 AFL area of solar panels and two basketball courts of Tesla batteries for each hour of night.
Ref: Why the renewable energy market is a scam.
Why solar cannot power our grid Part 2.
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On the winter solstice, that is the shortest day of the year, there are equal amounts of daytime and night-time. Since there are 24 hours in a day, multiplying the area required for nighttime electricity consumption by 12, then adding the space needed for battery storage requires a serious amount of real estate. Adding the cost of both those “commodities” to the cost of the batteries and the cost and area required for the control gear, including inverters and distribution wires clearly translates to an expensive day out.
600 AFL fields times 12 is the space of only 7200 football fields and that’s the minimum required under ideal conditions when the sun is shining each and every day. That almost never happens as frequently a passing cloud or two compromises optimum energy collection. Simply multiplying the above costs appropriately to cater for every possible contingency is seriously unrealistic. The 7200-football field of panels would need to be increased by a factor of 144 if there happened to be two weeks of overcast or inclement weather. And that’s just what is required at night when most people are sleeping. Imagine the infrastructure and cost needed to cater for cloudy days for daytime use when people are up and about over that two-week period.
Add that to world plans to block the sun to stop Global Warming at the same time and one can only hope there is intelligent life somewhere in another galaxy, dimension or frequency because there doesn’t seem to be any here on earth.
To run those 100,000 homes on coal for the hour would require about 54 tonnes of the coal that we export to China and India being about two school buses worth.
That could be substituted with 3kg of enriched Uranium being about the size of a tennis ball in a reactor, but no, … … we won’t be doing that.
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We will be putting 50 000 tonnes of solar panels on endangered species habitat or on previously productive land and all that listed above, … … to save the planet, … … from something.
If you are still reading, then it is glaringly obvious that solar panels cannot practically supply the electrical demand for a city of 100 000 homes let alone a city of with millions of residents.
Solar panels are a rational alternative in a sun drenched isolated area where stand alone systems are practical and connecting to the grid is not economically viable. For the mass production of energy for cities, there are other much more viable and less environmentally destructive options.
“All the world’s a stage” and this part of the show is a dark comedy.
And for some more dark comedy, let’s have a look at the outlay for return ratio on wind turbines. (… … … to be continued)
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