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Re:Solar Power Blowing Up in the United States by pasbesoin on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @06:57PM (#1789207)
Check your conversion:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&...

1 square meter = 10.7639104 square feet

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Re:Solar Power Blowing Up in the United States by stratomorph on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @07:20PM (#1789254)
I stand by the approximation. 300 m^2 is about 17.3m on a side, 17.3 m in feet is a touch under 57 ft. Rounded to one sig fig because I'm not carrying any sort of precision through these estimates.

Edit: Or are you talking about the "60 feet square" bit? I don't mean 60 square feet, I mean 60 feet on a side. I suppose I could have picked a clearer idiom.

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Re:Solar Power Blowing Up in the United States by pasbesoin on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @07:42PM (#1789309)
Yes, I meant the latter. I see what you mean, now.

Edit: And my bad, for mis-reading "feet square" as "square feet". Sorry!

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