At this scale, a geosynchronous solar power satellite beaming down power as microwaves actually seems chapter and more reasonable.
You know, other than the single point of failure in space part. I guess it’s a bad decade for that idea.
Not sure if that thumbnail pic is China or Mirrodin
Those photos don’t seem great for the environment.
The impact of our incessant growth continuously erodes the environment, wiping out ecosystems for development and depleting our finite materials. Our growth mindset excuses ourselves of the “lesser evil” of renewable energy.
Indeed this isn’t great for the environment and I’m again disappointed about this community’s shortsightedness in refusing to see it that way.
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Tired of you people bitching about how the only large scale non-nuclear solution to our problem isn’t “great for the environment” when it’s the ONE thing that isn’t actually destroying the planet. Can’t have anything less than 100% magical perfection, nobody will ever please you.
I never said don’t do it, but covering miles of land with solar panels is obviously going to destroy that environment. I’m tired of people like you who can’t stop reading novels from sentences. Go reee to someone else.
Destroy it compared to what
Nothing people do has zero impact. But pretty much everything else has a bigger one. Coal will utterly destroy the land, and the gases emitted after it burns will destroy far more.
Solar like this on a few percent of the land will supply all the electricity people need. So it looks huge, but is surprisingly low-impact compared with other options, or things like raising cattle
I guess the lesser of two evils is better than doing nothing.
Maybe one day fusion will finally deliver and we might have cheap and clean energy with no consequences to the environment other than a few big reactors in a country. But until that day arrives and we work that out we have to transfer and Wind, Solar and batteries are winning because they are cheaper than gas, coal and nuclear.
Better solution is to kill off rich people. Less rich people = less pollution
I’m down for that one. Immediate results.
Tbh it’s better than strip mining or coal power plants.
And in extremely hot areas, planting crops under solar arrays is a great idea, and can help more sensitive crops survive in areas where they’d otherwise get baked to death.
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