HeyBub wrote:
Assuming 50% conversion efficiency, it would take a solar collector the size
of the Los Angeles basin (about 1200 sq miles) to provide electricity just
for California. Then, too, there is the initial cost and on-going
maintenance. Plus Angelinos would be living in the dark.

They could use all that electricity to power the lights they put under
the solar-cell canopy to replace the sunlight.

Oh, hell, I just gave some politician an idea.

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