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December 17th, 2008, 02:28 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Re: Someone cast Wolven Winter on New Orleans!
Hmmm. Interesting assertion. I can't find any numbers for Nevada insolation, but here's a San Francisco table: http://www.sfog.us/solar/sfsolar.htm
At 6.47E9 square meters (2500 square miles), that gives about 10^13 Kilowatt-hours per year (10 trillion). Wikipedia claims that U.S. energy consumption is 29000 TWh per year (2.9E13 kWhs). So I'd say Radiohead's figure looks like it's in the right ballpark.
-Max
Edit: sorry, Radioheart. Wrong name, my bad.
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