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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>….</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kelly Anderson<br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>While highway 50 is a breathtaking example of loneliness, it's also a great example of why the government shouldn't be in charge of deciding where roads go<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span>I hate that highways are the example people always bring up of why we need large government projects. They do it so poorly.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>-Kelly<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kelly I totally agree, so don’t interpret the next bit as refuting it in any way. Here’s our chance to redeem a mistake of the past, to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>….</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Highway 50 had enormous potential as a showcase location for ground based solar. It’s about 600 km of paved two-lane with a good solid base under it and very little rain, little cloud cover ever out there in that big old desert</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>…</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The road already exists, and isn’t being used for anything, snaking all the way out thru that lonely desert. The PV factories in China already exist, and they are filled with workers who will rise up and kill if they don’t have something to do. We could use Chinese PVs, American sunshine and coal, synthesize the fuel in Nevada and ship it all the way back to China if we wanted. Time to fire up the old spreadsheet! </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>…s</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>pike</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ok did it. Assume using route 50 where it diverges from Interstate 80 east of Reno, and take that road all the way to Payson Utah. That gives us over 800km of good two lane road through desert where the annual average is over 5 kWh/day, so 5 could be used as a conservative figure. That’s about 1.8e6Wh/yr/m^2, so one km either side of the road would give us 1.6e3 km^2 or 1.6e9m^2 so that would make about about 3e15Wh/yr, which is a little more power than the US generated from coal and natural gas combined last year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Someone check my figures. A single km either side of the road for less than the distance from Reno Nevada to Payson Utah along and existing road that NOOOObody uses would replace coal and natural gas power in the US, and no one would even notice it was out there. How many have ever been on that road? Kelly has, I have. We may be the only two here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>