Infographic Inspired By Elon Musks PowerWall Presentation

Inspired by Elon Musk's presentation on the PowerWall, this Infographic highlights the area needed to go completely solar in USA vs India.

Sunkalp Energy calculated the area that needs to be covered by solar panels to offset the entire energy consumption- a meagre 100 x 100 sq kms would do it for the US! Inspired by Elon Musk’s presentation.

Sunkalp Energy / Via sunkalp.com

Recently Elon Musk on Tesla announced the much awaited Lithium Ion battery, which they have artfully named the “Power Wall”. In a dynamic presentation, Musk demonstrated how all of the world’s energy consumption could come from solar power, be it day or night, if we could use the Power Wall batteries to store energy during the day. Excitingly, the Power Wall can now be reserved for $3,400 from www.teslaenergy.com

Elon talked about how the “handy fusion reactor in the sky” had sponsored the energy for the entire experience at his presentation. He also showed how a teeny tiny percentage of the US land mass is needed to be covered by solar power to offset their entire energy consumption.

So inspired by Elon Musk’s presentation, we at Sunkalp Energy did some math to compare the land mass needed in India for complete reliability on solar power and how it compares with the United States. Take a look at the inographic below and the number crunching techies can download a high resolution version as well.