is being built!!… in China :| COME ON AMERICA!!!, we can’t just depend on Google for everything. Remember when we used to be cutting edge? *sigh*
Anyway, it’ll cost China $5 billion. /me gets out his pencil and puts on his elementary-school-student math hat: Now, $5 billion to power 3 million homes. That’s about $1.7 billion for one million homes. America has about 110 million homes. 110 times 1.7 billion equals $187 billion…
…so, that would cost us $187 billion to do for all our homes. The war in Iraq wasted $700 billion. So, if we spent only 25% of that money on solar power here in the US, we’d have every single home powered for free. Figure we use more electricity than the average Chinese home, and that construction costs are higher here, maybe that’ll push it to 50% or 75% of the cost of the Iraq war? Hell, take that other 25% and start powering apartments and businesses since we’re done with homes, and since we’re still spending money on Iraq, maybe by the time that’s all done and paid for we could have had free infinite power for the entire country. Are we running out of money to power everything in my math here? Hmmm.. I have those Afghanistan war costs somewhere here…
Oh and by the way, this would reduce our carbon footprint by about a gazillion times! Maybe we could all have electric cars, and never have to pay for the energy to run them - even less pollution! You might not even mind paying extra for them, because you’d NEVER EVER HAVE TO BUY ENERGY TO USE THEM!! The lord and earth would love it and say
Finally, they’ve not only seen the light, but they’ve used it!
The second coming of Jesus Christ might even occur due to such delight. He might be like “Whattup, I know some of you thought I was supposed to come back when stuff was real bad or whatever, but meh, I had to use it now instead cause I just had to personally give props. Word!” *poof*
But NO, we couldn’t possibly spend that much money on that!! Are you crazy?
*rolls eyes*
I have a feeling that “we couldn’t even possibly spend that much money on it” even if there were no war.
Anyway go ahead China, let the clowning begin. I’ve got my smile on and my eyes closed, ready for that pie in the face…