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How Solar Panels Could Power 90% of US Transportation

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In January, Scientific American writers unleashed an ambitious plan to halt global warming, eliminate our dependence on petroleum and the substantial trade deficit, boost the economy and create 3 million jobs, and brighten the dismal forecasts for the mid twenty-first century.

The plan is conceptually simple but would be substantial to implement:

  • Construct a 30,000 square mile array of solar panels in the Southwest,
  • along with concentrated solar power arrays and,
  • a massive direct-current power transmission backbone to distribute electricity throughout the country.
  • Excess power produced by the photovoltaic arrays would be distributed and stored as compressed air in below-ground caverns.

Development of such a system could provide almost three-quarters of the nation’s electricity by 2050. Read the rest of this entry »

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