50 Billion Dollars: Put Things in Perspective

50 billion dollars

  The alleged total cost of the Sochi Olympics is 50 billion dollars.  What could the world have done with 50 billion dollars instead? 

  The Sochi Olympics could have paid the 4-year tuition of 965,909,090 students to get their bachelors degrees at the University of California.

  The Sochi Olympics could have paid for the utilities of 36,258,158,085 Russians for a year.

  The Sochi Olympics could have paid for the launch of approximately 2,500 satellites. 

  The Sochi Olympics could have erected 227,272 wind turbines.  In the United States, there are currently about 3,500 wind turbines.

  The Sochi Olympics could have funded a full house solar panel installation for 1,250,000,000 homes.

  The Sochi Olympics could have paid for 50,000 heart transplants.

    

 sources:

http://www.windustry.org/resources/how-much-do-wind-turbines-cost

http://www.nrdc.org/energy/renewables/wind.asp

http://science.howstuffworks.com/satellite10.htm

http://www.transplants.org/faq/how-much-does-transplant-cost