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Posted: 01 Jan 2017 09:00 PM PST

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has once again championed the incredible potential of renewable energy.

During an interview Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting in San Francisco, the 44-year-old CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX said that the U.S. could meet its electricity needs just by covering a small corner of Utah or Nevada with solar panels.

Awesome talk on the future of solar power by @elonmusk #AGU15 #gpsSTEM pic.twitter.com/obX8f6RVJg

— GPS UC San Diego (@GPS_UCSD) December 15, 2015

His remark was captured in this tweet from Nature News reporter Lauren Morello, who was at the event:

Musk: "You could take a corner of Utah and Nevada and power the entire United States with solar power." #AGU15

— Lauren Morello (@lmorello_dc) December 15, 2015

Musk made a similar statement during his speech at the Sorbonne University in Paris on Dec. 2.

 

"Let's say if the only thing we had was solar energy — if that was the only power source — if you just took a small section of Spain you could power all of Europe," he said.

"It's a very small amount of area that's actually needed to generate the electricity we need to power civilization. Or in the case of the U.S., like a little corner of Nevada or Utah would power the United States."

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