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11. It's relatively easy to calculate those numbers from the numbers in the post I provided.

A working figure for the amount of dangerous natural gas burned each year is here, 2021 data:


Source: 2022 IEA World Energy Outlook Table A 1a, page 435

I will say this:

According to a cheap google to solar promotion fools, solar cells in the increasingly industrialized destroyed Mohave Desert ecosystem produce, with a tilt mechanism to track, about 6.8 MJ/m^2-day.

This suggests that 1 EJ would require about 40 billion square meters without spaces, or about 40,000 sq km.

This is considerably more than 10,000 acres; closer to 1 million acres.

From the efficiencies for electrolysis in my response, including or not including liquefaction, one can do the rest of this calculation and its left as an exercise. One would of course, need some infrastructure, pipelines, gas (or liquid) storage units, compressors, turbines generators, what have you.

I rather like the exciting new energy unit, the "California," 0.125 EJ, however. It suggests that there are about 5,000 sq km of solar cells already in California, a believable number given the pictures of destroyed wilderness in the Guardian article.

The land area of California is roughly 423,000 sq km.