Subject: Re: [permaculture] Design-Bioregional-Energy Policy-The Sustainability of Bio...
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:03:11 EDT
I'd still like to echo the original comment, which was that someone should do
the math to see how viable next-generation solar would be for providing power
to the state of Florida.
Here are the 2004 figures for energy consumption in that state.
I see they used 755.2 trillion btus of natural gas-- nearly all, I would
suspect, in electrical generation-- plus 325.5 trillion btus from nuclear
power,
699.1 trillion btus from coal, 176.1 trillion btus from biomass and a
negligible amount (2.7 trillion btus) from hydroelectric power. Or, very
roughly,
1,200,000,000,000 btus total for the year.
That's a lot of juice. Just so we can wrap our heads around the concept,
could someone with a grasp of the new solar technology size a system for us
that
could, say, provide just a trillion btus per year? I'd like to see what we're
talking about.
Michael
Re: [permaculture] Design-Bioregional-Energy Policy-The Sustainability of Bio...,
Marimike6, 06/17/2007