On 11/13/2025 at 5:18 PM, KhunLA said:

Only if they are home to use, or compensated to feed the grid.   Or it will be a long time for ROI.

 

On the other topic, single family homes, detached or townhouses could easily be off grid, but condos & businesses would struggle, and near impossible if multi story structures.  Unless panels covering every wall & roof surface, and then still a stretch.

 

Didn't bother reading the article, since titled 'America', and USA is not solar friendly, as overpriced and over regulated.  60 million would be about 1/5 th the population, and that's a stretch, as many live in poor weather part of the year.

 

Hurricanes, tornadoes, hail & snow, with NW very wet & overcast.

Compared to OZ, where every third house has solar panels. 

18 minutes ago, still kicking said:

Compared to OZ, where every third house has solar panels. 

And whatever the economics of it may be in the USA, solar panels are a growing part of the solar economy. And what's pertinent to the question of land use is that they don't take up any more space. They're on home rooftops. What's more, they're increasingly used in places like parking lots.  Big box stores in the USA are installing them in parking lots and on their roofs. All this without encroaching on farmland or pristine environments. Bangkok Hospital in Chiangmai has installed solar panels in its parking lot. There's a lot of room for growth like this in Thailand.

On 11/14/2025 at 9:53 PM, Alan Zweibel said:

Your point isn't valid but who cares since you're massively wrong about how much land would be required for solar power to power all of Thailand

4 years ago it was reckoned that it would take about 22,000 square miles of solar panels to power the USA. That's about 57,000 kilometers. The total land area of thailand is about 513,000 square kilometers. I reckon that if that  about 1/9 of Thailand's area could power the USA of 4 years ago, it probably could do the same for the Thailand of today.

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/energy/2015/05/21/fact-checking-elon-musks-blue-square-how-much-solar-to-power-the-us/

https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/how-much-land-power-us-solar/

 

 And not that it's exactly relevant to your assertion but in the USA about 29.7 milllion acres or about 120191 square kilometers of land is used to grow corn for ethanol. So at least  as far as total area goes, it shouldn't be a problem to power America strictly with solar.

Thank you for confirming you have absolutely no idea about Solar technology. Enjoy you life in cuckoo land.

35 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

Thank you for confirming you have absolutely no idea about Solar technology. Enjoy you life in cuckoo land.

You could have done the honorable thing and admitted you got it wrong. You could have said nothing. But instead you, as an anonymous poster, assert that you know not just better than I do, but than experts do,too. But you offered nothing in the way of evidence to counter the evidence I've offered. You've got nothing, except, I surmise, a very frail and bruised ego.

 

Needed, 150 to 260 km² ... see below: Nong Chok

 

 

For reference, Nong Chok district of Krung Thep is 236 km²

 

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