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