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Tesla CEO Elon Musk recalls growing opportunities use of solar panels that one of company divisions. He’s sure that the site is a deserted square, for example in Arizona measuring 26,000 square kilometers completely Satisfy US electricity needs. Plus, it’s completely you need a little bit (“a couple of squares”) to build the largest in world electricity storage.
Tesla company produces not only electric cars, but also has in its structure, the unit for the production of solar panels and roof tiles. Recently, the company’s business has suffered losses, but Musk is now convinced that the production of solar panels will become more profitable business than the manufacture of electric vehicles.
Guided by a study at the University of London College (UCL) Musk estimated that the “gigafarm” area of 100 per 100 miles (25,900 square kilometers) in some desert terrain, allow the United States to fully support itself solar power. For ease of perception, this area will be ten cities like Moscow.
In 2015, Elon Musk first mentioned the “gigafarm” by electricity production. Two years later, the billionaire again returned to this topic, but significantly improving his offer, adding a huge storage near the station electricity per square mile (2.6 sq. km). Mask promised that during the implementation of this project “you will have energy 24/7 “, that is, always.
Since then, the company Ilona Mask has been able to increase capacity. batteries 14 times, which is why this part of the system will become more compact and even more efficient.
London UCL researcher Andrew Smith estimates that the system proposed by Ilon Mask with an area of 10 thousand square kilometers, will be able to generate about 500 GW, which is significantly more than the United States consumes energy per year (425 GW).
Experts from Popular Mechanics counted to “lay” 10 thousand square miles of solar panels will need about 6 trillions of US dollars, roughly equal to annual GDP Japan.
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