The Tiger and the Sun: Solar Power Plants and Wildlife Sanctuaries
arXiv:0902.4692
Abstract
We discuss separate and integrated approaches to building scalable solar power plants and wildlife sanctuaries. Both solar power plants and wildlife sanctuaries need a lot of land. We quantify some of the requirements using various estimates of the rate of solar power production as well as the rate of adding wildlife to a sanctuary over the time range 2010-2050. We use population dynamics equations to study the evolution of solar energy and tiger populations up to and beyond 2050.
19 pages, 4 tables, 9 figures