Why Sustainable Power is Unsustainable

> As a country America can build 100 sq. miles of solar
> thermal power plants in the southwest and take care of
> all of America's needs.

It isn't 100 sq. miles, it's a hundred miles on a side:
10,000 sq. miles.

So we put 1,250 sq. miles (1/8 of 10,000) in orbit, and
there you go. That's 35.36 miles on a side.

It isn't 161 sq. Km, it's a hundred sixty-one Km on a
side: 25,900 sq. Km.

So we put 3237 sq. Km (1/8 of 25,900) in orbit, and
there you go. That's 57 Km on a side.