Why solar panels cannot realistically power the electricity grid

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Why solar panels cannot realistically power the electricity grid. "To power 100,000 homes for one hour, you need 50,000 tonnes of solar panels." "If I want to produce this hour of electricity in the evening when the Sun isn't shining, well then I need... about two basketball courts worth of batteries." "But of course I have to charge these batteries, so that means I need additional solar in the grid so that we have an excess to charge them. So we add another [10,000 tonnes] of solar panels." "This is for one hour."

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