Elon Musk

um, is a gigawatt per square kilometer or roughly, you know, called two and a half gigawatts per square mile.

um, is a gigawatt per square kilometer or roughly, you know, called two and a half gigawatts per square mile.

Um, so that's a lot, you know, um, and the commercially available panels are around 25, almost 20 to 26% efficiency and maybe, you know,

Um, so that's a lot, you know, um, and the commercially available panels are around 25, almost 20 to 26% efficiency and maybe, you know,

And then you say, if you pack it densely, you get an 80% packing density, which I think in a lot of places you could get an 80% packing density.

And then you say, if you pack it densely, you get an 80% packing density, which I think in a lot of places you could get an 80% packing density.

You effectively have about 200 megawatts per square kilometer.

You effectively have about 200 megawatts per square kilometer.

And you need to pair that with batteries so you have continuous power.

And you need to pair that with batteries so you have continuous power.

Although our power usage drops considerably at night, so you need less batteries than you think.

Although our power usage drops considerably at night, so you need less batteries than you think.

And doesn't the question then become... A rough way to... Maybe an easy number to remember is a gigabyte per hour per square kilometer per day is a roughly correct number.

And doesn't the question then become... A rough way to... Maybe an easy number to remember is a gigabyte per hour per square kilometer per day is a roughly correct number.

yes solar panels are made of silicon uh which is sand essentially um and um i guess more on the battery side but the battery side yeah so battery on the battery side um uh you know the like iron phosphate lithium-ion battery cells that's you know earth i'd like to throw out some like interesting factoids here um if most people don't know uh if you said um

yes solar panels are made of silicon uh which is sand essentially um and um i guess more on the battery side but oh the battery side yeah so battery on the battery side um uh you know the like iron phosphate lithium-ion battery cells that's you know earth i'd like to throw out some like interesting factoids here um if most people don't know uh if you said um

uh, as measured by mass, what is the biggest element?

uh, as measured by mass, what is the biggest element?

What, what is, what is the earth made of as measured, as measured by mass?

What, what is, what is the earth made of as measured, as measured by mass?