11% of the Military Budget Could Fund Enough Renewable Energy for Every Home in the US

So much is wrong with this "analysis".

1) You just did the reverse of the calculation they did to reach $76 billion at the end of the article in the first place (and recalculated their per household cost). I question their cost per household numbers for both solar and wind, but all their sources are listed on a separate page.

2) This would be like saying we're going to spend $4.8 billion to serve the air travel needs of the Denver metropolitan area (~3 million people). That's $4.8 billion / 3 million = $1,600 per person. What can we do with that? Buy each person like a few airline tickets? Oh wait, we're going to build an airport. It's an infrastructure project, not a per person (or per household) payout...

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