• wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    About half of solar energy passes through the atmosphere, that factor of two isn’t a good enough reason to use space-based solar panels for ground-based power grids.

    Even though the microwave receiver power station in SimCity 2000 looked so cool.

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      19 hours ago

      But it’s still solar panel system that produces a lot of electricity in a small area regardless of efficiency

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        2 hours ago

        Yes but its very dirty solar energy because rockets are very dirty and the amount of energy to lift all those arrays into orbit is substantial.

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          11 minutes ago

          Unless we use an electromagnetic canon that’s powered by renewables.

          I know we have to tamper our growth in general starting with fossil fuel consumption