Wisconsin uses about 5,273,000 megawatts of electricity (MW).
OK. So Tokin' Tony wants to eliminate all the nuke, coal, and gas-fired generators and switch to wind and solar by 2070 or so. That means we have to replace 90% of that 5,273,000 MW--or about 4,500,000 MW.
That will take up a really, really, really, big chunk of land.
Let's pretend that we'll get a little more than half from solar and a little less than half from windmills so that it takes about 50 acres/megawatt, on average.
*scritch scratch scritch scratch* math is hard.....
225,000,000 acres!!
That's a problem. See, Wisconsin only has 34,800,000 acres of land.
Maybe Tokin' Tony plans on annexing Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan??
Or we could use more conventionally accepted numbers, where solar gets about 4-5 acres per MW, and wind gets 2 MW on 1.5 acres.
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