Well bummer:
It would take a wind farm on about 100,000 acres to generate the same amount of electricity as a one-gigawatt nuclear plant that typically occupies less than 1 square mile, or 640 acres. Princeton University estimates in a high-renewable-energy scenario, where solar and wind would account for virtually all electricity generation for the U.S. in 2050, the number of wind turbines would require roughly 244 million acres of uninhabited land—even assuming efficiency improvements.
The Five Things Keeping Us From Going All-Electric – WSJ
At some point, we might have to consider other ways of generating electricity – such as nuclear.
Other points in the linked article are that hydrogen and other chemical-based fuels may make more sense, and new technologies yet to come on line may be more effective than electricity.
Laura Farms recently posted a Youtube video answering why they use diesel generators and pumps on farms – and that’s because there are no local power lines. Power lines would have to be brought in to the edge of fields, at tremendous expense, and then buried under the field to connect to pivots and other equipment that is currently powered by ICE. It can take considerable electrical power to operate remote farm equipment.
