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True. But that was when we had an extreme supply of very cheap energy laying around waiting to be utilized. That's what's changed--that day is over. The EROEI on that system that you've linked is absolutely horrific. I can think of a bunch of ways to make a far more efficient system with lower tech, actually. You've got a lot of major efficiency losses in that one like the inverters, for instance. I could go on and on and on...Order-of-magnitude budgetary installation costs for the country, I'd expect you're in the $10 trillion range, which you'd have to obtain by way of selling products to other nations (customers) and dedicate something like 5% of the total retail cost of said products to your project of making us a renewable-energy nation. Therefore, in order to do it in one year, you'd need the amount of total exports to other nations to be about $200 trillion bucks worth AND the trade deficit would have to swing the other way where other nations started owing us money instead of how it is right now. The value of our (US) gross exports in 2006 was about $6.6 trillion, by the way, with a trade deficit running about 6%.Naturally, it can't work that way (1-year implementation)--it'd have to be implemented over some period of years and that trade deficit's got to go first. Since the lion's share of that (the trade deficit) is energy costs (oil)... how do you resolve the equation?Of course, that's all "back-of-napkin" calcs and I might have missed something glaring. Feel free to comment constructively.
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But that was when we had an extreme supply of very cheap energy laying around waiting to be utilized. That's what's changed--that day is over. The EROEI on that system that you've linked is absolutely horrific. I can think of a bunch of ways to make a far more efficient system with lower tech, actually. You've got a lot of major efficiency losses in that one like the inverters, for instance. I could go on and on and on...
Order-of-magnitude budgetary installation costs for the country, I'd expect you're in the $10 trillion range, which you'd have to obtain by way of selling products to other nations (customers) and dedicate something like 5% of the total retail cost of said products to your project of making us a renewable-energy nation. Therefore, in order to do it in one year, you'd need the amount of total exports to other nations to be about $200 trillion bucks worth AND the trade deficit would have to swing the other way where other nations started owing us money instead of how it is right now. The value of our (US) gross exports in 2006 was about $6.6 trillion, by the way, with a trade deficit running about 6%.
Naturally, it can't work that way (1-year implementation)--it'd have to be implemented over some period of years and that trade deficit's got to go first. Since the lion's share of that (the trade deficit) is energy costs (oil)... how do you resolve the equation?
Of course, that's all "back-of-napkin" calcs and I might have missed something glaring. Feel free to comment constructively.
