every suitable roof on earth would generate about 27,000 terawatt-hours a year: about as much electricity as the world uses. not every hour. the sun sets. that is the storage problem, and it is the whole problem.
method Joshi et al. 2021: global rooftop PV technical potential ~27 PWh/yr; NREL 2016 for the US share.
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