[hunterpayne]

You are confusing the rating of the solar panel with the amount of power it actually produces. Solar has a capacity factor of .1. So if you are doing a hours of daylight x rating of the panel calculation, you are over by 5x. If you are doing a hours of the day x rating of the panel, you are over by 10x. Basically you are confusing capacity vs utilization.

Or to provide simpler proof, if your calculations were correct, utilities would be falling over themselves to build solar. They aren't and will resist doing so. There are good (correct) engineering reasons for that, not political ones.

PS We use a faction of the farmland we did in 1900 to feed 2x the number of people. Fertilizer and biotech improved the amount of food produced per unit of land back in the 70s by an incredible amount. And without either lots of new nuclear or fossil fuels we can't continue to do that. This is why we don't decide these things with votes but instead employ engineers.