EEVblog 1553 - World's First Commercial Solar Power Station

[Kleinstein]

His numbers need some update, but they have not aged in any game changing way. Try looking at the real world figures for solar farms in hot countries. They take far more space than most people imagine.

That does not mean that solar is stupid or not worthwhile. It is demonstrably worthwhile in many circumstances.
Again, who is talking about powering the entire world from solar power here? You seem to be the only one.

The areas look large when you compare it to your home, but overall the area needed for PV power is relatively small. I remember one older example from the US where they would need some 25% of the white sands militray training ground (one of the larger in the US) as PV area to power the whole country. Of cause this is only a theoretical number not taking into acound the distribution and need for storage, but it shows that the area per se is not a principle problem. Especially in the how an sunny areas there is plenty of desert like area avilable with not much competition for the area. There are even enough relatively dry areas where partial shade from PV installation could increase the agri-culture productivity of these areas. So solar farms with not just PV but also farming.

[.RC.]

Agriculture and PV installations are not really going to co-exist.  There are going to be issues I think some people have not considered.  Like soil erosion from water running off the panels and concentrated onto the ground.

And I thought in the latest eevblog2 video, those figurines were wrestling were they not?