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Land-Use Requirements for Solar Power Plants in the United States. NREL/TP-6A20-56290.

Commissioned by US DOE / NREL. Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.

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• CLM-0317 Two studies of how much land US ground-mounted solar farms need, the second drawing most of its measurements from the first, indicate once converted to the same units that the receiving antenna of a space solar power design already in the register would need roughly a quarter to a fifth as much ground per unit of electricity delivered.

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