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To: null and void
At year end 2010, the U.S. had 2,593 megawatts (MW) of installed solar electric capacity. This included about 2,086 MW of photovoltaics (PV) and 507 MW of utility-scale concentrating solar power.

Per wikipedia US uses 3.7 B megawatts per year. I've looked to find basic data on this but google searches seem clogged with solar- and wind-power sites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electricity_consumption

Anyhoo, it looks like solar is less than 1%, and this doesn't take into account it's the low-hanging fruit - the tough questions are transportation, cost/mW, etc.

104 posted on 03/13/2012 3:22:10 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

Sorry, I did my maths wrong. US uses 3.7 Trillion mW. Which puts solar at 0.0001%.


108 posted on 03/13/2012 3:28:55 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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