Israel’s Solar Panels
Right now Israel is planning to build the world's largest solar power plant. This will be placed in the Negev (a large area of desert). This is really stunning because Israel is roughly the size of New Jersey and is creating largest Solar Power Plant in the World.
The site for all of the solar panels in going to be 1000 acres of land which is roughly 1.5 square miles. This site will be able to supply 500 megawatts at the end of the project. To put this into perspective 80 megawatts is enough to supply 160 thousand people with energy and Israel is planning to build one with 500 megawatts. That is enough energy to provide one million people with clean, and renewable energy.
Hypothetically if Israel had 87 square miles filled with solar panels they could generate enough energy to supply power to the whole country of 8 million people. This project is an incredible step towards effective renewable energy.
Questions:
- Why doesn't the United States start to develop a network of solar panels?
- How large a piece of land do you think we would need to power all the people in the USA?
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/45123#.Vk89gnpOI4Y
Although I think that building solar panels and having almost every building running off of them would be a lot of work I think its a great way to save energy
ReplyDeleteAlthough I think that building solar panels and having almost every building running off of them would be a lot of work I think its a great way to save energy
ReplyDeleteI think it would be very beneficial but also costly.
ReplyDeleteThat's a really expensive project to get an entire country on board with.
ReplyDeleteJake Dunbar