Reply #35: Do you know how much wind and solar energy [View All]

could have been produced for the $700 Billion the Iraq war has cost (and likely to be well over a trillion even if we exited today)?


3kw system is about $7000 installed (with rebates).

700,000,000,000 / 7,000 = 100,000,000 3 kw systems.

Assume that a 3kw can produce that amount 200 days a year for 6 hours a day.

3kw x 200 days x 6 hrs/day = 3,600 kwhrs / year.

x 20 years life cycle = 72,000 kwhrs.

100,000,000 systems x 72,000 kwhrs = 7,200,000,000,000 kwhrs or

7,200,000,000 Mwhrs or 7,200,000 Gwhrs or 7,200 TWhrs

7,200 Tera Watt hours of electricity (at today's cost), only installed on current existing rooftops and office buildings.

That would heat and cool a lot of homes AND provide most people with plugin transportation AND provide most industrial uses of energy. And we wouldn't really spend $7,000 for each 3 kw system. Not when we can achieve some economies of big scale.

We don't need studies or programs or new inventions...

We simply need to will and the leadership to just do it.