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Re:A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love... by jws on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:28PM (#18781618)
That is the 3.0 insolation I chose. It’s reasonably representative of areas of northern hemisphere cities. The United States average by population is probably between 4 and 5 according to this map, but winter is lower and you have to plan for that.

https://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/eere_pv/national_photovoltai...

Here is a map of the world…

https://globalsolaratlas.info/downloads/world

Northern Europeans are going to want to have some power lines to the south. Chile might be the new aluminum refining capital of the world. Africa would be energy rich.

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Re:A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love... by pfdietz on Saturday December 29, 2018 @09:36AM (#18783744)
I sometimes wonder if some of the resistance to a solar-powered world stems from their discomfort with the implied economic shift of heavy industry to brown-skinned countries.
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