roughly watts usage of the USA = 1377 watts per person * us population (323,995,528) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electricity_consumption …) times dollars per watt ($2.91) for solar panels = $1.3 trillion so, no
Could a billionaire afford enough solar panels to power the whole country? Od this a feasible thing to do?
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(ignoring installation costs(?), economics of scale, and how billionaires have their wealth as equity and not cash and can't really easily convert it to cash at the amounts we're talking about here)
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Probably not in anything resembling a rational way -- the cost as the materials were bought up more and more would vastly increase the cost, not to mention the logistic cost of acquiring more and more marginal land and so on with which to place them. However they could...
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afford to invest in Nuclear power which would be a huge carbon reduction (in many studies lower than solar) with a fraction of that overhead; the main issue being the legal, NIMBY, and regulatory issues.
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There's a few initiatives going -- not quite at the 'entire county' part yet, but they're starting somewhere. This one is to power 1/5 of Singapore for example:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/14/just-a-matter-of-when-the-20bn-plan-to-power-singapore-with-australian-solar …
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Tesla's also pursuing it in Australia:https://electrek.co/2019/07/26/tesla-virtual-power-plant-australia-savinigs-phase-3/ …
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We have ~5 million people cities powered entirely by renewables in Australia right now. Solar isn't the be all, end all for renewable energy as different sources work better in different locations. But it wouldn't take long to convert major cities to renewables entirely.
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Maybe in a coutry with smaller population and more sunlight?
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Scientifically speaking, maybe? Realistically speaking, you’d make so many powerful enemies in the fossil fuel industry, you wouldn’t remain a billionaire for long.
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Each stage ends with you fighting an assassin from a different oil company
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