Scale of the Solar Opportunity

There's enough solar energy hitting the Earth every hour to meet all of humanity's power needs for an entire year!

Every ounce of oil, every lump of coal, and every cubic foot of natural gas could be left in the ground if only we could capture one hour's worth of solar energy each year. That's the scale of the opportunity!

To put that into a different perspective, if we covered the Mojave Desert with solar arrays, it would generate more than twice as much electricity as the U.S. uses annually.

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