Among the many interesting facts revealed in this video is that it would require 8 million acres of photovoltaic panels to provide the entire electrical needs of the United States. But this is insignificant compared to the combined total of the 26 million acres devoted to oil and gas production, 10 million acres currently devoted to coal production and the 22 million acres of land used for ethanol production, which adds up to 58 million acres. One very practical way to generate solar electricity is to cover parking lots with raised solar panels for cars to park under. Not only would this provide shade for the cars under them, keeping them from getting too hot inside them, but the sale of the electricity they produced would offset the cost of erecting them. In Los Angeles County alone there are 200 square miles of land set aside exclusively for parking cars. Were they covered by solar panels, they could provide the entire electrical needs of Los Angeles county! A significant portion of the California State Fairgrounds parking lots is thus covered by such shade providing solar panels, making it much more comfortable to get back in one's car when leaving the state fair or whatever other public event was transpiring there.
Breakthrough Solar Panels Store Energy Just Like Plants!
Even if the concerns over anthropogenic global warming were entirely bogus and unfounded (which is certainly not the case, according to 99.9% of the world's scientists), why would anyone object to adopting these innovations, especially when they are already more cost effective than relying on fossil fuel energy, and steadily becoming even more competitive?Yes, we have solar panels, but they don't work in the same way plants do. But what if the future Of solar was panels that didn’t create electricity that needed to be used that instant, but instead created fuel that could be used any time? Come join us as we discuss why this technology is so game-changing!