2. Did you know? a 100-mile-by-100-mile solar thermal installation in the American Southwest could meet the entire country’s energy needs? That area is just a little larger than the amount of land in the U.S. that has been strip-mined for coal . Source: http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/10/solar-energy-could-power-us-many-times-over/
3. Did you know? All of California's electricity can be produced from 200 square miles of sunshine - 128,000 acres of desert land. Lake Mead, behind Hoover Dam, covers more than 200 square miles. Source: http://www.americanenergyindependence.com/solarenergy.aspx
4. Did you know? Concentrating solar power could meet up to 7 percent of the world’s projected power needs in 2030 and a full quarter by 2050 Source: http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2009/05/26/desert-solar-power-can-supply-a-quarter-of-worlds-energy-needs/
5. Did you know? Covering 4% of the world's desert area with photovoltaics could supply the equivalent of all of the world's electricity. The Gobi Desert alone could supply almost all of the world's total electricity demand. Now think of all the conflicts it would solve. Or the new ones it will ignite.
6. Did you know? Constructing a large array of solar panels in the Sahara desert (a fraction of it, probably the size of a small country) can provide enough electricity to supply all the power needs of the entire Europe (only $70 billion would be needed in order for the idea to become a reality. Why “only”? The United States consumes nearly a million dollars of energy per minute, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. There are 1,440 minutes per day, and 525,600 minutes in a common year.
7. Did you know? US Oil imports Net = 10,400,000 barrels per day. Currently, oil barrel is above $70 - that means $728,000,000 a day. Or 0.73 billion dollars a day. Or 22 billion per month. Or 260+ billion per year. Source: http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us-united-states/ene-energy
8. Did you know? U.S. Foreign Oil Dependence: U.S. imports nearly 70% of Foreign Oil. In August 20009 alone US imported 355 million barrels of oil and sent $25.2 billion overseas U.S. Sent $18.6 Billion Overseas and Imported 375 Million Barrels of Oil in April 2009 U.S. Sent $18 Billion Overseas and Imported 386 Million Barrels of Oil in March 2009 U.S. Sent $13 Billion Overseas and Imported 339 Million Barrels of Oil in February 2009 Source: http://www.pickensplan.com/oilimports/
9. And did you know? Dr. Global Warming Himself, aka Al Gore, burned through 22,619 kilowatt-hours of electricity at his house last August, a rate that is TWICE the level used by an average U.S. household IN AN ENTIRE YEAR. Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,254908,00.html
10. Did you know? Al Gore’s home uses 20 times the energy of average American homes …and that is after going “green”(http://newsbusters.org/node/11073) . The Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours. (http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=...&id=5072659) Another classic example of “Do As I Say, Not As I Do”. More info: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/28/politics/main2522844.shtml andhttp://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp
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