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by winkeltripel 1414 days ago
I don't really want wind turbines and solar panels to cover the whole planet. I used that to calculate some numbers for canada, and we'd need about 64k average offshore wind turbines, and 3200 square kilometers of solar farms.
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Canada is comprised of 9,984,670 km^2. I don't think that your 3200 km^2 is going to make that much of an impact.
It's a whole 0.5% of the area of farmland in Canada. Think of the children!