Chalo
100 TW
Regarding the 200-300 km^2 of solar installation to replace one 4000MW coal plant:
The nearest coal power station to where I live has a total capacity of 1690MW. Its presence prevents most of the potential uses of more than 300 km^3 of land around it. Mind you, that's just the power plant and not the mines or railroads that feed it. And it's losing money because it runs on coal.
Everybody wants the lights to come on and the air conditioning to work, but nobody wants to live near a coal plant or eat things that are grown nearby. I dare say that solar installations don't have that kind of repellent zone around them.
The nearest coal power station to where I live has a total capacity of 1690MW. Its presence prevents most of the potential uses of more than 300 km^3 of land around it. Mind you, that's just the power plant and not the mines or railroads that feed it. And it's losing money because it runs on coal.
Everybody wants the lights to come on and the air conditioning to work, but nobody wants to live near a coal plant or eat things that are grown nearby. I dare say that solar installations don't have that kind of repellent zone around them.