Reply #13: some quick calculations

[Left in IL]

I was way off on my other estimate of 600 plants, it was more like 1700.

Here are the STAGGERING numbers I mentioned before!!!

US oil consumption
Barrles per day 20,000,000 which equals
Barrles per year 7,300,000,000 which equals
btu/yr 42,340,000,000,000,000 which equals
KW Hours per year 12,409,144,196,952

Nuke Plants in US 101
KW hrs per yr 7.28E+11

So,
Avg KW/plan/yr 7,207,920,792

Nuke plants to replace oil 1,722

Current Solar Cell Technology generates 10 watts per square foot, when the sun is shining.

Assuming 12 hours of sun per day the
Sqft of solar cells
required to replace oil 720,792,079,208

If the avg home has 1200 sqft of roof space

roofs required would be 1,201,320,132

We only have 300,000,000
people in the US So were not even close on roof space.