Re:Exploring strategies to decarbonize electricity
by jryan49 on Thursday August 10, 2017 @09:08PM
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If we captured 100% of solar energy wouldn't everything on Earth be dark?
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Re:Exploring strategies to decarbonize electricity
by MichaelBurge on Thursday August 10, 2017 @10:02PM
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You'd allocate some of it to heat and light. But the fact that solar panels are useful implies that mankind would prefer to allocate a portion of that energy differently.
"100% of Earth's inefficiently-allocated incoming solar energy" is too subjective to earn a Wikipedia entry, but I assume it's a substantial fraction of the entire "100% of Earth's incoming solar energy".