So you are saying 10 miles square, which is 100 square miles ?
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> On Mar 16, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Bob Axtell wrote:
>
> Cedric Chang wrote:
>> Someone said they had a link to a proposal to use 10 or 100 square
>> miles of sunny desert land to make hydrogen and oxygen from water and
>> solar energy.  Can anyone direct me to this proposed solar farm ?
>>
>> I want to run the numbers on acquiring land down south ( USA ) and
>> what the technology costs would be.
>>
>> cc
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> I can't find the original book I saw those figures in, sorry. It was a
> good book, about 15 years
> ago, can't locate it now. But I remember after reading it that I  
> did the
> math, and 10miles square
> indeed did the job nicely, with energy left over, even with the sun
> going down every night.
>
> --Bob Axtell
>
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