Re:Apple's Data Centers Now Running on 100% Renewable Energy
by aaronbrethorst on Thursday March 21, 2013 @04:11PM
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As was pointed out, that's the whole world, not the United States. And the Sahara Desert is 3.629 million square miles. Sounds like that would be a great place to site 200,000 square miles of solar panels. Of course, this would be infeasible for any number of reasons ranging from geopolitics to superconductors, which is why it's a thought experiment.
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Re:Apple's Data Centers Now Running on 100% Renewable Energy
by toomuchtodo on Thursday March 21, 2013 @09:17PM
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Someone's already on it:
Re:Apple's Data Centers Now Running on 100% Renewable Energy
by anonfunction on Thursday March 21, 2013 @04:27PM
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The most obvious problem being that transmitting the power from North Africa, to say Hawaii would pose a significant challenge.
Re:Apple's Data Centers Now Running on 100% Renewable Energy
by aaronbrethorst on Thursday March 21, 2013 @04:42PM
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Like I said, superconductors.